Tokyo, Oct. 29 -- Prime Minister Tarique Rahman left Tokyo for Dhaka on Thursday night after a delay of four hours and 44 minutes due to a technical glitch in the Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft, wrapping up his four-day state visit to Japan.

The flight departed from Narita International Airport at 10:44pm local time after engineers fixed the technical problem that prevented the aircraft from taking off earlier in the evening, said Prime Minister's Additional Press Secretary Atikur Rahman Rumon.

The aircraft, which was scheduled to leave Tokyo at 6pm local time, moved towards the runway around 6:18pm.

It stopped before takeoff, and about 15 minutes later, Captain Md Imamul Islam announced that the flight could not proceed due to a t...