On 5 August 1984, a Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27-600 crashed into a marsh near Zia International Airport (now Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport) in Dhaka, Bangladesh while landing in poor weather.

[1] With a total death toll of 49 people, it is the deadliest aviation disaster to occur on Bangladeshi soil and also the airline's worst accident.

[1] The captain of the flight was Kayes Ahmed Majumdar, an experienced pilot who had logged 5,000 flying hours.

[2] Amid these conditions, the crew first attempted a VOR approach to Zia International Airport's runway 32.

Thirty-three of the passengers were traveling to Dhaka to catch connecting flights to the Middle East.