On 24 February 2019, the aircraft operating the flight, a Biman Bangladesh Airlines Boeing 737-800, was hijacked 252 kilometres (157 mi) southeast of Dhaka by lone wolf terrorist Polash Ahmed.

[1] The crew performed an emergency landing at the Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong where Ahmed was shot dead by Bangladeshi special forces.

[4][5][6] Cabin crew noticed the perpetrator acting strangely for most of the flight; he was supposedly armed with a toy pistol.

[8] The suspected hijacker was identified as a man in his mid-20s who demanded to speak with his wife, and then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

[10][11][12] The Rapid Action Battalion identified the hijacker as Polash Ahmed from Narayanganj, Bangladesh, after a fingerprints match in the criminal database.