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Oct 14 abortive flight to NY

13 Biman, Civil Aviation staff held responsible

By Masud Arif
Negligence to duty by 13 staff members of the Biman and the Civil Aviation Authority was responsible for the return of Biman s October 14 New York flight about three hours after its take-off from Dhaka, a probe report says.
Biman's BG-011 flight IDhaka-Delhi-Brussels-New York) came back because of an on going exercise of Indian Air Force in Delhi
There is no well-defined guideline on responsibilities of the staff at Biman's operations control, the probe report of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism says.
Operation of the abortive flight ignoring a very urgent" NOT AM (notice to airman) mes-
sage from Delhi about the exercise caused a financial loss of Tk 6 34 lakh
On October 14. the captain of the BG-011 (light and others concerned ignored the NOTAM message as none of them reported to the operations centre for pre flight briefing, the report said
Senior officials of the Biman and the Civil Aviation Au thorities of Bangladesh (CAAB) said as per rules, all the crew were supposed to get flight plan’ and briefing' from the operations centre about one hour before the take-off
The crew of the flight did not sincerely scan the papers of the flight plan' which, accord-
ing to the report, was a "serious negligence" to duty. A copy of the NOTAM message was attached with the 'flight plan.'
Besides, one of the accused crew gave a false time of his reporting in the aircraft log book.
The report said the operations assistants and the Biman's operations manager in Delhi were found "reluctant" about the NOTAM message which had reached them more than 24 hours before the flight.
"Any NOTAM message is very important for the people involved in aviation." said a senior civil aviation official.
Some others expressed the same view adding that the NO-' TAM which affected the October 14 flight was much more important as an airfield near Delhi was closed for few hours for the Air Force exercise.
The probe report recommended departmental action against the 11 staff members of Biman and two of the CAAB. It also suggested the authorities concerned to introduce a guideline on responsibilities of the operations staff.
The probe committee headed by a Joint Secretary submitted its report to the Minister and the Secretary of the Ministry on December 8.
The accused Biman staff were three captains, one first officer, an operations manager, a duty controller, a flight engineer and four assistants at the operations control. The two CAAB employees were one deputy director and an aerodrum assistant.
The probe committee which also included one official each from the Biman and the CAAB strongly recommended effective steps so that the Biman crew report to the airport in time and take pre-flight briefing.