The US-Bangla dash model aircraft that crashed at Kathmandu airport on Monday was totally fit to fly before departing Dhaka, Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) Chairman Air Vice Marshal M Naim Hassan said. “We followed all set procedures of safety compliance before the departure of the aircraft,” he said while addressing a press briefing at the CAAB headquarters. Mentioning that the same aircraft was operated on the Dhaka-Chittagong-Dhaka route in the morning before it left for Kathmandu, he said: “If the aircraft was not fit, it would have failed to fly on Chittagong route.”The CAAB chairman said the black box of the ill-fated aircraft will be sent to Bombardier in Canada, the manufacturer of the dash, to decode it. The CAAB chairman said they would try to find out the reason of the crash as soon as possible. I heard he had a good track record of operating dash aircraft.”

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 13, 2018 12:47 UTC