Flight operations at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram were suspended for nearly two hours on Saturday morning after a Biman flight carrying Hajj pilgrims got stranded on the runway.
All passengers were safely disembarked after the fault was fixed, said Md Ibrahim Khalil, spokesperson for Shah Amanat International Airport.
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The Biman flight, BG 138, carrying 387 Hajj pilgrims from Saudi Arabia's Madinah landed at the airport at 9:30 am but came to a halt near the end of Runway-23 to a technical glitch, he said.
The aircraft was towed to an adjacent area using a tug vehicle around 11:20am allowing runway operations to resume.