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Tuesday, December 23, 1997 Published at 13:45 GMT
World: S/W Asia
Inquiry into Bangladesh plane crash
![image: [ The pilot's passport was found on Tuesday just a few kilometres from the crash site ]](/olmedia/images/_41883_pilot1.jpg)
The pilot's passport was found on Tuesday just a few kilometres from the crash site
The government in Bangladesh has set up an inquiry to examine why a domestic flight carrying eighty-four passengers crash-landed in a rice field.
Officials said they were amazed that nobody was killed or seriously injured.
The plane, owned by the state airline Biman, came down near the north-eastern town of Sylhet.
Air traffic controllers only learned of the crash when villagers arrived at the airport, carrying injured passengers.
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
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