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| Elderly Hajj pilgrim dies at Bangla airport |
| 2005-12-15 |
| An elderly hajj pilgrim Sujjat Ali, waiting at the Zia International Airport (ZIA) due to overnight disrupted Hajj flight schedule, died early hours of Monday, airport sources said. Civil Aviation doctors who attended the ailing pilgrim said Ali died due to old age complications. ZIA immigration sources said Sujjat Ali, aged about 55 and son of late Jahan Box of Fakirpool village of Pabna died at about 2:30am at ZIA. His passport number is 031164 and was scheduled to avail BG flight no-0801. Acting Managing Director of Biman Major (Retd) Salam Monday told UNB that passengers of the cancelled flights were accommodated to other scheduled flights of Biman which left for Jeddah on Sunday evening and early Monday. He said stranded pilgrims of the 12:45 am flight are expected to leave for Jeddah by 3:00pm Monday. Two special flights chartered by Biman were cancelled on the first day of the Hajj flights on late Sunday causing serious dislocation at the airport and stranding hundreds checked-in waiting pilgrims. Biman sources said the flights of two Boeing 747 aircraft, chartered from Corsair Airlines, were cancelled due to non-availability of landing permission from Saudi authorities in Jeddah. Civil Aviation sources said about 300 pilgrims demonstrated Sunday night at ZIA after receiving the flight cancellation news. The first Hajj flight of Biman took off from the ZIA on Sunday morning with 274 ‘ballottee’ pilgrims (under government management) out of 2,621 such hajj pilgrims. |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #2 "Civil Aviation sources said about 300 pilgrims demonstrated Sunday night at ZIA after receiving the flight cancellation news" Show some patience dudes, shit happens. My Red-Eye back from Vegas was cancelled. And that was after the lounge was closed. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2005-12-15 12:16 |
| #1 A little research and... About 72% of the population live on agriculture having an average life span of 55 years. ...so I guess they ain't lying. He was due. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-12-15 11:45 |