Buddha Air flight makes emergency landing at Nepal's Tribhuvan International Airport
Kathmandu, Jan 6: A Buddha Air flight with 76 people on board made an emergency landing at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) here in Nepal after experiencing a left engine flameout.
The flight BHA953, en route to Chandragadi, departed from the TIA at 10:37 am local time.
It experienced a left engine flameout and subsequently initiated a VOR (Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range) approach to Kathmandu at 11:15 am, according to a press release circulated by the Tribhuvan International Airport and Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal.
There were 72 passengers and 4 crew members on board.
Taking to X, Buddha Air said: “Flight number 953 from Kathmandu to Bhadrapur, with call sign 9N-AJS, was diverted back to Kathmandu after a technical issue was detected in the right engine. The aircraft safely landed at Tribhuvan International Airport at 11:15 AM.”
“Our technical team is currently inspecting the aircraft. Arrangements are being made to send the passengers to Bhadrapur on another flight," it said.
The TIA temporarily halted other operations during the landing of the Buddha Air flight.
काठमाडौंबाट भद्रपुर उडान नं. 953, जहाज कल साईन 9N-AJS, मा दायाँ इञ्जिनमा प्राविधिक समस्या देखिएको हुँदा जहाजलाई पुनः काठमाडौं डाईभर्ट गरि 11:15 मा त्रिभुवन विमानस्थलमा सुरक्षित अवतरण गराईएको छ । जहाजलाई हाम्रा टेक्निकल टिमले चेकजाँच गरिरहेका छन् ।
— Buddha Air (@AirBuddha) January 6, 2025
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Bangladesh's interim govt revokes ousted PM Sheikh Hasina's passport
Dhaka, Jan 7: Bangladesh's interim government on Tuesday said it has revoked the passport of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 96 others over their alleged involvement in enforced disappearances and the July killings.
Hasina, 77, has been living in India since August 5 last year when she fled Bangladesh following a massive student-led protest that toppled her Awami League's (AL) 16-year regime.
Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has issued arrest warrants for Hasina and several former Cabinet ministers, advisers, and military and civil officials for “crimes against humanity and genocide”.
Addressing a press briefing here, Chief Adviser's Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder said, "The Passports Department cancelled passports of 22 people involved in enforced disappearances, while passports of 75 people, including Sheikh Hasina, were revoked due to their involvement in the July killings.”
He, however, did not reveal the names of the remaining individuals whose passports were cancelled, the state-run BSS news agency reported.
