The aircraft with 164 passengers, including 11 children, and seven crewmembers on board made the emergency landing at the airport at 1:20 pm, said Shah Amanat International Airport Manager Wing Commander Sarowar-e-Azam.

General Manager (Marketing Support and PR) of US-Bangla Airlines Kamrul Islam said the Cox’s Bazar-bound flight of the airlines – BS-141 - took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 11:30 am.

As a technical glitch developed, the flight made an emergency landing at Shah Amanat International Airport as there was no facility of making emergency landing at Cox's Bazar Airport, he said.

However, the passengers were unhurt, Kamrul said.

The nose gear of the aircraft was not working due to technical glitch and it flew in Chattogram sky for some time before landing at the airport, he added.

The runway of the airport was shut after the emergency landing but the aircraft was removed from the runway using a crane, he said. 

Meanwhile, a four-member probe body was formed led by Captain Salahuddin M Rahmatullah, head of Aircraft Accident Investigation Group of Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh to look into the incident.

Talking to reporters at the airport, former MP from Savar Talukdar Mohammad Tawhid Jang Murad who was a passenger of the flight expressed his disappointment at the emergency landing, saying he never saw such a bad quality aircraft in his life. “People’s confidence will disappear if they deliver such service,” he said.

On March 12 last, at least 51 people, including 26 Bangladeshi nationals, were killed as a US-Bangla Airlines aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Tribhuvan International Airport in the capital of the Himalayan country of Nepal.