Shawdesh Desk:

A Turkish Airlines flight made an emergency landing at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Tuesday morning as the flight’s right side engine faced a bird hit minutes after its takeoff from the same airport.

The Turkey-bound flight TK-713 carrying 280 passengers took off from the HSIA at 7:09am on Tuesday and its right side engine catches fire moments after the flight departed, said a press release of HSIA.

The release said that the pilot of the flight made an emergency landing safely at 8:01am.

It also said that all passengers were safe and they were shifted to a hotel and an alternative flight would be arranged for them to reach their destination.

HSIA executive director Group Captain SM Ragib Samad said that no damages and causalities were reported in the incident.