An official of Biman Bangladesh Airlines said they had to suspend operation of the aircraft and cancel its flight scheduled for 9:30am local time on Jeddah-Chittagong-Dhaka route due to a leakage in the hydraulic line in one of its wings.
The national carrier sent spare parts and technicians from Dhaka to Jeddah in a flight today at 1:00am. It might require only a couple of hours to repair the leakage, the official told The Daily Star.
After hours of misery, the passengers were taken to local hotels. The Biman authorities will bear all the expenses, according to Biman sources.
Biman will accommodate as many as it can in the next Jeddah-Sylhet-Dhaka flight scheduled for 6:00pm today, they added.
A top Biman official said they will have to revise the schedules of other flights due to the technical glitch detected during the aircraft's flight to Jeddah.
"We've already asked the next flight to land in Dhaka first to offload passengers before flying to Sylhet," said another Biman official seeking anonymity.
The Chittagong-bound passengers will take another domestic flight from the capital to reach their destination, he added.
Biman has a fleet of 12 aircrafts including four DC-10s. It is the only airline in the world which still operates 34-year-old DC-10s, mentioned sources in Biman.
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