Captain Nawshad laid to rest at Banani Graveyard
Bangladesh desk: Biman Bangladesh Airlines pilot Captain Nawshad Ataul Qayyum was buried at Banani Graveyard in Dhaka on Thursday after Zuhr prayers.
His namaz-e-janaza was held at Biman Bangladesh Airlines office in Kurmitola at 2pm. State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Mohammad Mahbub Ali took part in the janaza.
Captain Nawshad was laid to eternal rest beside his mother’s grave at 3pm.
Earlier, a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the body of the pilot, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at about 9:15am. It was flown from Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport in India’s Nagpur.
The 44-year-old pilot passed away on August 30 at Kingsway Hospitals in the Indian state of Maharashtra after fighting for life for the last four days as he was in “coma” in the hospital following a brain hemorrhage.
The Dhaka-bound Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight from Muscat BG 022 made an emergency landing at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport in Nagpur with 124 passengers in the morning of August 27 when Captain Nawshad Qayyum suffered a heart attack in the mid-air.
He will be buried at Banani Graveyard beside his mother’s grave after Zuhr prayers.
