Biman pilot Captain Nowshad Ataul Qayum, who died in India following a mid-air heart attack, was laid to rest at the Banani Graveyard in the capital on Thursday evening.
Earlier, his body arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from Nagpur, India at 9:12 am in a flight of BG-028.
State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Mohammad Mahbub Ali, senior officials of the national flag carrier, two sisters of Captain Nowshad and his daughter were present at the airport.
The state minister, high officials along with Biman pilots and two other local private airlines — US-Bangla Airlines and Novoair — paid their last respect by placing wreaths at his coffin at the airport.
Captain Nowshad’s body was then taken to his residence and later to Biman’s head office Balaka Bhaban at 2:00 pm when Biman’s senior officials also paid tributes to him. A Namaj-e-Janaja was also held there.
State Minister Mahbub Ali, Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism Md Mokammel Hossain and Biman officials and employees joined the janaza.
Later, he was buried at the Banani graveyard around 4 pm.
Captain Nowshad Ataul Qayum, who was hailed for landing his plane safely in Nagpur after suffering a heart attack mid-air on August 27, died at a hospital in India three days later.
The Biman flight (BG022), carrying 124 passengers, had to make an emergency landing in the Indian city of Nagpur on August 27 after Nowshad fell sick while piloting the plane from Muscat to Dhaka.
Since then, the 44-year-old pilot had been undergoing treatment at the hospital in Nagpur, where he breathed his last.
Source: United News of Bangladesh