Body of Captain Nawshad Ataul Quaiyum, a pilot of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, was flown to Dhaka from India’s Nagpur this morning.

Norwegian Air said on Tuesday it would not need to raise more cash as easing Covid-19 travel restrictions lifted bookings, although the budget carrier which has emerged from bankruptcy proceedings did not provide a 2021 outlook.

“If any doctor was on board the flight or if I were a doctor, the early demise of Capt Nawshad Ataul Quaiyum could have been prevented,” said Bangladeshi expatriate Abdul Karim, who was on Biman’s Muscat-Dhaka flight that had to make an emergency landing in India’s Nagpur on August 28 after its pilot in command Capt Nawshad suffered a heart attack.

The body of Biman Bangladesh Airlines pilot Captain Nawshad Ataul Qaiyum, who passed away in a Nagpur hospital yesterday, is likely to reach Dhaka on Thursday morning.

Captain Nawshad Ataul Quaiyum, the Biman Bangladesh Airlines pilot who passed away today after suffering a heart attack mid-flight on Friday, was responsible for saving the lives of 149 passengers on December 22, 2016.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines pilot Captain Nawshad Ataul Quaiyum, who suffered a heart attack mid-air, died this morning at a hospital in India. He was 44.

Highlighting the potentials of Cox’s Bazar, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government wants to turn Bangladesh into a global aviation hub that will help accelerate the country’s current economic march forward.

Condition of Biman pilot Capt Nawshad Ataul Quaiyum, who suffered a heart attack while commanding a Muscat-Dhaka flight, remains the same. He is in coma in a hospital in Nagpur.

Capt Naushad Qayyum -- the Biman Bangladesh Airlines pilot who suffered a heart attack mid-air on Friday -- is clinically dead, Capt Shoaib Chowdhury, a senior pilot of Biman, has confirmed to The Daily Star.

The pilot of the Muscat-Dhaka Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight Naushad Qayyum, who suffered a “massive” heart attack mid-air yesterday, was stated to be in a “coma” and on ventilation support at the Intensive Care Unit of Kingsway Hospital in Nagpur in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.

A Biman flight from Muscat to Dhaka had to make an emergency landing at an Indian airport yesterday after the pilot in command suffered a heart attack in the cockpit.

Stranded passengers of Biman Bangladesh Airlines have departed from Nagpur International Airport in Maharashtra, India for Dhaka.

Passengers of Biman Bangladesh Airlines -- who were stranded in India's Nagpur airport after an emergency landing -- finally reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at around 12:51am.

A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying an eight-member rescue team is leaving Dhaka for India’s Nagpur this evening to bring back 124 passengers, who remain stranded at Nagpur Airport following emergency landing of a Dhaka-bound Biman flight.

A Dhaka-bound flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, with around 122 passengers on board, made an emergency landing at an airport in India.

US-Bangla Airlines will resume daily flights on Dhaka-Muscat-Dhaka route from September 1 after more than three months.

A memorandum of understanding between Egyptair and ALO Dhaka Aviation Ltd was signed in Cairo on August 18 -- to start operating two flights per week between Dhaka and Cairo, starting from November 2021.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and Biman are at loggerheads over the confusion created over flight operations to and from India.

Foreign Minister and Biman Bangladesh Airlines are blaming each other over the delay in resuming flights with India inconveniencing several hundred passengers.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh and the two local airlines are yet to get the requisite approval from India to resume flights to the neighbouring country from today, leaving hundreds of passengers who bought tickets in a state of suspense.