Biman pilot flies to Jeddah with mother’s passport

A Biman Bangladesh Airlines pilot "mistakenly" carried his mother's passport instead of his own while assigned to operate a Dhaka-Jeddah flight last night.

The surprising part was that immigration officials at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka cleared Captain Muntasir Rahman without properly checking his documents, including the passport, Biman's General Manager (Public Relations) Boshra Islam told The Daily Star.

The mix-up only came to light after the flight landed in Jeddah, where Saudi immigration authorities noticed the error and prevented the pilot from leaving the airport for a hotel.

Biman's station manager in Jeddah later intervened and managed to resolve the situation, Boshra said. Measures were also taken to send the captain's actual passport on a later Biman flight so he could operate the scheduled return leg.

The airline stressed that no flights were delayed and no financial loss resulted from the incident.