An aircraft of Biman Bangladesh with destination Dubai has an emergency landing on an airport in Bangladesh after an armed passenger an attempt had been undertaken to the device to hijack. The 25-year-old man would also threaten to have the plane to blow up.
The Boeing 737 had of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, to Dubai, to fly, but already made an emergency landing at the airport of Chittagong. “The pilot had decided after the cabin crew notification of suspicious behavior by a passenger,” said Shakil Miraj, the director of the airline. The police and the army had the aircraft to encircle before all 142 passengers were allowed to leave. Security forces allowed the 25-year-old suspect arrest.
The Bangladeshi minister of Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal explained that the hijacker the pilot with a gun has threatened. “Until now, we know that an armed man has a gun to the head of the pilot is drawn. Eventually, all the passengers aboard may have gone, the pilot also.”
Mentally disturbed
Other sources have more details about the man and what exactly happened. According to Nayeem Hasan, the head of the civil aviation authority of Bangladesh, the suspect also threatened that he had a bomb. “But it seems that the man is mentally disturbed,” said Hasan.
The Bengal politician Moin Uddin Khan Badal, that passenger was on the plane, told that a shot is fired. The politician also claimed that the hijacker had demanded to the prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, to speak. A source at the air traffic control told the newspaper Dhaka Tribune that the shooter also tried the command from the cockpit.
