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Bangladesh Airlines plane makes emergency landing
A Bangladesh Airlines plane made an emergency landing on Tuesday in Bangkok after a fight broke out between two passengers during the flight, airport officials said.
- AP
- Published: 12:44 April 8, 2008
Bangkok: A Bangladesh Airlines plane made an emergency landing on Tuesday in Bangkok after a fight broke out between two passengers during the flight, airport officials said.
There were no immediate reports of injuries aboard the aircraft, which was carrying about 70 passengers from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, said a spokeswoman for the Airport Authority of Thailand.
Passengers said the fight broke out when a man started making a commotion during the flight and then hit a fellow passenger who asked him to quiet down, she said.
The aircraft contacted the control tower at Bangkok's Don Muang airport and requested permission to land.
Thai authorities boarded the plane on the tarmac and removed the passenger who had started the altercation and the flight was expected to continue without him to Bangladesh, the spokeswoman added.
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