US-Bangla plane crash

US-Bangla plane crash: What caused it?

Fifty-one people die when a US-Bangla Airlines plane carrying 71 passengers and crew crashes on “abnormal” landing at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA). Does faulty communication or technical malfunction cause the crash of Flight Bangla Star 211 at Kathmandu’s TIA?
14 March 2018, 04:39 AM

A moment of sorrow and grief

The tragic US-Bangla plane crash at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu on Monday has left us shocked, saddened and at a loss for words. This is the deadliest civil aviation disaster in Bangladesh's history.
13 March 2018, 18:00 PM

Friends till death

Bilquis had flight phobia.
13 March 2018, 18:00 PM

A life cut short

Prithula Rashid, co-pilot of the US Bangla aircraft that crashed in Nepal on Monday, lived out the dream of her parents, a dream that she too had embraced as a child; she grew up to be a pilot.
13 March 2018, 18:00 PM

Lives lost, answer sought

With the nation reeling from the shock of Monday's tragic plane crash in Kathmandu, two more injured passengers of the ill-fated US-Bangla flight reportedly died yesterday, taking the death toll to 51.
13 March 2018, 18:00 PM

Guilty, Who? The truth lies in black box

Confusion, buck-passing, and guessing are all what went on yesterday, a day after a US-Bangla aircraft crash-landed in Nepal to claim 51, 28 of them Bangladeshis.
13 March 2018, 18:00 PM

PM returns home from Singapore

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returns home cutting short her official visit to Singapore by a day following the US-Bangla Airlines plane crash in Nepal.
13 March 2018, 15:06 PM

US-Bangla aircraft was fit to fly: CAAB chairman

The US-Bangla Dash model aircraft that crashed at Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal’s Kathmandu was totally fit to fly before departing Dhaka, Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) Chairman Air Vice Marshal M Naim Hassan says.
13 March 2018, 14:11 PM

Messi, Ronaldo’s La Liga expresses grief for Bangladesh

Spain's La Liga pays homage to victims of US-Bangla plane crash tragedy.
13 March 2018, 13:00 PM

US-Bangla plane crash: Nepalese team starts investigation

A six-member inquiry team of Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal begins investigation into the US-Bangla plane crash that left 51 people dead.
13 March 2018, 12:46 PM

US-Bangla cabin crew Nabila’s daughter in police custody

The two and a half years old daughter of one of the cabin crews killed in a tragic plane crash in Nepal is now in the custody of Uttara West Police Station in Dhaka.
13 March 2018, 12:20 PM

US-Bangla plane crash death toll now 51

Two more injured passengers of Monday’s US-Bangla plane crash in Kathmandu succumb to injuries, taking the death toll to 51.
13 March 2018, 11:22 AM

Bodies of US-Bangla crash victims taken to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital for autopsy

Bodies of all 49 passengers who were killed in the US-Bangla plane crash are taken to the Maharajgunj-based Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) in Kathmandu.
13 March 2018, 11:19 AM

US-Bangla plane crash: Control room opens at Dhaka airport

A control room has been opened at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka to provide necessary information and counselling to the families of the victims of the US-Bangla Airlines plane crash.
13 March 2018, 11:02 AM

Prithula Rashid, a life cut short

Prithula Rashid, the co-pilot of the ill-fated US-Bangla airlines aircraft who was among the 49 victims, is being mourned by her friends and family.
13 March 2018, 09:42 AM

US-Bangla pledges support to crash victims

US-Bangla Airlines says it will bear the medical cost of the victims who survived the plane crash at Tribhuban International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal.
13 March 2018, 08:50 AM

‘People were burning, shouting and falling down’

“I was travelling with my friend. When the aircraft was about to land it started turning left. People started shouting. We looked back and saw that the aircraft was on fire,” says Bangladeshi citizen Shahreen Ahmed, 29, one of the survivors of US-Bangla plane crash.
13 March 2018, 07:31 AM

Sylhet medical mourns death of Nepali students

Sylhet’s Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College begins a three-day mourn following the death of 13 of its students – all Nepalese – in yesterday’s plane crash at Kathmandu.
13 March 2018, 06:27 AM

Priok, end of an undaunted spirit

The US-Bangla Airlines plane crash at Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal brings an end to the life of FH Priok, an aspiring travel photographer, who was on board the fateful flight along with four of his family members.
13 March 2018, 06:12 AM

US-Bangla flight reaches Nepal with families of crash victims

A US-Bangla flight has reached Nepal with the families of the Bangladeshi crash victims from Dhaka.
13 March 2018, 04:43 AM