A Dhaka court yesterday placed two engineers of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on a five-day fresh remand each in connection with a case filed over the technical glitch of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's flight on November 27.
Metropolitan Magistrate Nurunnahar Yasmeen passed the order after Mahbub Alam, an inspector of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit and also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, produced them before it with a 10-day remand prayer.
The two Biman staff -- Shah Alam, engineer (technician); and Najmul Haq, engineer (officer) -- were remanded for seven days earlier.
On January 9, they were arrested, according to the court sources. They were not FIR-named accused.
In the yesterday's forwarding report, the IO said that he gathered vital clues about the PM's plane glitch. Moreover, they were present during the time of checking the flight before departure. So, they need to be remanded again to gather __more information.
Earlier, seven Biman officials were arrested and two surrendered. All of them are now in jail after they were quizzed in remand for 15 and 14 days.
All the officials were suspended after their arrest in the case against them with Airport Police Station.
On November 27, a VVIP flight to Budapest with the prime minister made the emergency landing at Ashgabat International Airport in Turkmenistan after a loose nut caused an oil leak and subsequent oil pressure loss in engine-1 of the Boeing 777-300ER, according to the Biman probe.