Chief Investigator of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) and freedom fighter Abdul Hannan Khan died of coronavirus at Dhaka Combined Military Hospital today (Sunday). He breathed his last at around 12:45 pm at the age of 78. ICT Senior Officer M Sanaul Haque confirmed the information and said, Hannan Khan was admitted at a private hospital in the capital on September 9 due to physical illness. As his condition deteriorated he was shifted to CMH following instruction of the Prime Minister. Mentionable, after retiring from the post of additional DIG of police Abdul Hannan Khan as an experienced police officer served the responsibility of Chief Coordinator of Bangabandhu killing and Jail killing cases. AH  

Captain Salahuddin M Rahmatullah, Bangladeshi investigator for the US-Bangla aircraft crash in Nepal said, the investigation report of Nepal said that the pilot was smoking in the cockpit. There is nothing to debate in this regard. Because, there is no restriction internationally for not smoking on the aircraft. But there is instruction for not smoking in toilets. So it is not the reason for that accident. He said these at a press conference at the head office of Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) on Monday. CAAB Chairman Air Vice Marshal M Naim Hassan was also present there. Salahuddin M Rahmatullah said, the investigation reports of India and Nepal are baseless which held pilot Abid Sultan responsible for the accident. The air control tower needed to be more alert when the captain was preparing for landing. On March 12 last year flight BS-211 of private airlines US-Bangla crashed in Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal with 71 passengers on board. 51 people were killed in the accident where 22 were Nepalese, one Chinese and the rest were Bangladeshis. On Monday in a report of New Delhi based news agency Asian News International (ANI) it was said, a commission was formed to investigate the fatal accident and that commission submitted the report on Sunday. In a statement the commission said, there are rules to ban smoking on behalf of the companies for operating domestic and international flights. But according to the information came to the commission Pilot in Command (PIC) of the aircraft was a smoker. According to the information of Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) the pilot was smoking in the cockpit while operation the aircraft. So the accident took place due to inability of the aircraft controller and lack of consciousness over situation by the crew members. AH