US-Bangla Airlines

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

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

US-Bangla crash: Death of Pilot Abid Sultan, 3 other cabin crew confirmed

All the four cabin crew members including pilot Abid Sultan of US-Bangla flight that crashed at Kathmandu airport have died, Rajkumer Chhetri, general manager of Tribhuvan International Airport says.
13 March 2018, 04:17 AM

Guilty, who?

A YouTube audio clip of a reported conversation between US-Bangla flight BS211 and the air traffic control (ATC) of Tribhuvan International Airport prior to the crash reveals startling confusion over what was going on.
12 March 2018, 18:00 PM

26 Bangladeshis among 49 killed

This is the deadliest civil aviation disaster in Bangladesh's history. At least 49 people, including 26 Bangladeshis, were killed when an US-Bangla flight from Dhaka crashed in Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport yesterday.
12 March 2018, 18:00 PM

Tragedy in the land of Everest

Bored after months of work, they planned a holiday abroad. The destination they chose, upon suggestions from friends, was Nepal.
12 March 2018, 18:00 PM

Misguidance from tower caused the crash: US-Bangla CEO

US-Bangla Airlines Chief Executive Officer Imran Asif says the wrong signal from air traffic control (ATC) tower of Tribhuvan International Airport led to the aircraft crash.
12 March 2018, 14:30 PM

US-Bangla aircraft was out of control: DG Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal

The aircraft of US-Bangla Airlines that crashed in Kathmandu was out of control while attempting to land on the runway, says Director General of Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (Caan) Sanjiv Gautam.
12 March 2018, 13:50 PM

'I broke out of the window', US-Bangla flight crash survivor says

Basanta Bohora, an employee of Raswita International Travels and Tours, is one of the survivors of the deadly plane crash that occurred in Kathmandu.
12 March 2018, 10:56 AM

US-Bangla aircraft skids off runway at Syedpur Airport

A plane of US-Bangla Airlines skids off the runway while landing at Syedpur Airport.
4 September 2015, 11:17 AM