Biman Bangladesh Aircraft Incident Closes Dubai Airport

Mar 12th, 2007 | By Jared Blank

A Biman Bangladesh A310 had an accident while taking off at Dubai’s airport this morning, causing the facility to shut down for 8 hours. Early reports suggest that 14 passengers were injured when the plane either burst a tire (tyre) or had its landing gear collapse on takeoff. The airline has been a mess, cancelling routes due to mechnical issues with its aircraft. This won’t help that problem.

For a good laugh, check out the flight reviews for Biman Bangladesh over at Airlinequality.com.

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Rob Leathern March 12th, 2007 4:19 pm :
I read some of those reviews - wow, this is an amazingly bad airline… I almost fell off my chair when I read the review that ended: “Long live Biman since my return you have made me appreciate every minute of every day that I am still here. “

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