Live Correspondent: Biman Bangladesh airlines today sent an aircraft to Myanmar to bring back its injured passengers and crews of the flight BG-060 that skidded off runway at Yangon International airport on Wednesday evening.

“The special flight took off Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Yangon at 4 pm today and it will be back here tonight carrying our injured passengers and crews,” Biman’s spokesperson Shakil Meraj told BSS.

He said so far, four Bangladeshi injured nationals, currently undergoing treatment at a hospital in Yangon, showed their interests to come back here. “Apart from the four passengers, 2 pilots, 2 cabin crews and 2 ground engineers of that ill-fated aircraft will also be back on boarding today’s special flight tonight,” Meraj, General Manager (PR) of the national flag carrier said.

Apart from two pilots, two cabin crews and two ground engineers, there were 29 passengers, including one infant, from Bangladesh, Myanmar, India, China, Denmark, France, Britain and Canada, the official sources said.

After the accident 19 passengers including pilots and crews got admitted with minor injuries at the hospitals there while four of them are already released.

“I will leave for Yangon on Saturday and other experts will follow me later,” said, Capt Saluddin, who had represented Bangladesh in the accident investigation body of Nepal after the US-Bangla aircraft crash in Kathmandu.

Dhaka, 10 May (campuslive24.com)//MIH