Bangladesh Biman Airlines finally sent the 237 stranded passengers at Brussels to New York (NY) yesterday.

Biman made arrangements with Air India and Delta Airlines to transport the passengers of its New York flight which left Dhaka on Sunday.

Biman's BG-011 Dhaka-NY flight started from Zia International Airport after rescheduling departure time thrice and it got stuck at Brussels on the same night due to engine failure. Since then 21 Business Class passengers, 203 adult and 13 infant passengers of Economy Class of the DC-10 aircraft were stranded in Brussels.

Meanwhile, a replacement engine from Amsterdam and nine engineers from Dhaka were sent to the aircraft's rescue yesterday, said Biman officials in Dhaka last night.

Passengers who were supposed to fly from New York to Dhaka on the DC-10's return flight also got stranded. Biman said it would arrange for their journey to Dhaka in its next available flight.

The national airlines' lossmaking NY flight faced trouble for the second time in four months. In late September last year a Biman flight was grounded at the John F Kennedy Airport in New York for three days as the US Federal Aviation Authorities stopped it from taking off without repairing the 17 mechanical faults it had detected in the aircraft.