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Biman’s repaired DC-10 to fly again December 10

Bv Asiuzzaman
Nabajug. the DC-10 aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines which met with an accident at ZIA on May 18 last will fly agtiln on December 10 after completion of repair wprks. Blman sources said yesterday.
"It will be a test flight which will hover over the capital for a few minutes." a senior official of Biman s engineering department told The Dally Star.
The aircraft will then be sent to Rome for D-checklng." he said, adding that the Nabajug would Join the fleet for full operation in early January. 1994.
The aircraft, one of the four Biman DC-10-30s. met with an accident while landing in stormy weather on a return flight from Jeddah. All 135 pas-
sengers and crew surMved unhurt.
Experts and technicians of the manufacturers McDonnell Douglas (MD) Company of the United States have successfully repaired the structural damage to the aircraft and were now assembling the engines and other components, a Biman source said.
The nose-wheel of the DC-10 which was severely damaged in the accident has been repaired and replaced. All the three engines and some 80 other components were overhauled in the USA and Italy, the source said.
Some 50 MD experts have been engaged In the repair work which began' on August 8. The repairs will cost 15 million US
dollar, which will be paid by the insurer Lloyds of London. Biman will earn about one million dollar from MD by selling 15,000 man-hour of its own engineers and technicians.
The D-checklng was earlier supposed be done at Biman's hangar at ZIA with the help of Alitalia, but the decision was revised when Alitalia demanded a higher fee for conducting the D-checklng In Dhaka, which would have been the first of Its kind in Dhaka.
D-checking Is the most extensive checking of an aircraft, usually carried out after every 23,000 hours of flying.
Meanwhile, the committee probing the DC-10 accident will submit Its report by the end of
this month The report is likely to clearly Indicate that human error — meaning pilot's fault — was the main cause of the mishap.
"We are giving the final touches to the report." one member of the seven-man body told The Dally Star, requesting anonymity.
"The DC-10 accident was Identical to the recent accident of a China Airlines (Taiwanese) aircraft In Hong Kong." the source said. "Both aircraft overshot the runway during landing in bad weather.''
Chairman of the committee Group Captain (Retd) Nazmul Huq Chowdhury, who is the Member (Operation), Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) said that the investigation report would be submitted soon. He did not elaborate.
The captain, the co-pilot and flight engineer of the Ill-fated aircraft have remained grounded since the accident.