Biman Bangladesh Airlines pilot Captain Nawshad Ataul Quaiyum, who passed away in India following a mid-air heart attack, was laid to rest at Banani graveyard in Dhaka on Thursday afternoon.
Earlier, a Biman airlines flight operated by Boeing 737 Mayurpankhi carried the coffin of its late pilot from India and landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 9:15am.
State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Md Mahbub Ali, senior officials of the national flag carrier, two sisters of Captain Nawshad and his daughter were present at the airport.
The state minister, Biman’s high officials along with pilots of the national flag carrier and two other local private airlines — US-Bangla Airlines and Novoair — paid their last respect by placing wreaths at the coffin at the airport.
Later, Captain Nawshad was buried at Banani graveyard after two namaz-e-janazas, held in Uttara and on the premises of Biman’s headquarters Balaka consecutively.
Captain Nawshad, the 44-year-old pilot, passed away on August 30 at Kingsway Hospitals in the Indian state of Maharashtra after fighting for life for four days as he was in "coma" in the hospital following a brain hemorrhage.
On August 27, the Dhaka-bound Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight (BG022) from Muscat made an emergency landing at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport in Nagpur with 124 passengers as pilot Captain Nawshad suffered heart attack mid-air.
Immediately after landing, the sick pilot was sent to Kingsway Hospitals.
