Bods, debris found in search for missing Myanmar aircraft
The Associated Press
Last Updated:Jun 08, two thousand seventeen 6:47 AM ET
Myanmar military personnel salvage the wheel of a downed transportation plane from the Andaman Sea on Thursday. Myanmar Military News/EPA
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Figures and aircraft debris were found in the sea off the southern coast of Myanmar on Thursday by a navy ship searching for a military plane which went missing with one hundred twenty two soldiers, family members and squad on board.
Ten figures, six adults and four children, were found about thirty five kilometres off the southern coastal town of Launglon by navy and civilian ships, the military said in its latest statement posted on its official Facebook page.
The search by nine navy ships, five military planes and two helicopters, would proceed with help from civilian boats, it said.
The Chinese-made Y-8-200F transport plane vanished on Wednesday after taking off from the coastal town of Myeik on a weekly flight to Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon.
The plane lost contact twenty nine minutes after takeoff while flying at Eighteen,000 feet (Five,485 metres) over the Andaman Sea, about seventy kilometres west of the town of Dawei, the military said.
An aircraft wheel, two life jackets and some bags with clothes — believed to be from the missing plane — were found earlier.
Some patches of oil were spotted some twenty nine kilometres from Dawei, the military said.
More than forty ambulances and scores of medics and emergency staff were heading to the fishing town of Sanlan where boats carrying figures were set to arrive around mid-day, said Hla Thein, a member of a hospital emergency team.
The plane was carrying one hundred twenty two passengers, including one hundred eight soldiers and their family members and fourteen squad. The military said the one hundred eight passengers included fifteen children, fifty eight adults and thirty five soldiers.
It is the rainy season in Myanmar but a civil aviation official said the weather had been “normal” with good visibility when the plane took off.
The aircraft was bought in March two thousand sixteen and had a total of eight hundred nine flying hours. It was carrying Two.17 tonnes of supplies, the military said.
A Chinese military Y-8 aircraft flies over the Pacific, near Japan, in October 2013. A similar plane belonging to Myanmar’s military went missing Wednesday inbetween Yangon and the southern city of Myeik. (Joint Staff Office of the Defence Ministry of Japan/Reuters)
Nicknamed the “air camel” in Chinese, the multi-purpose aircraft was approved for production in one thousand nine hundred eighty and is still being produced by Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation, a unit of state-owned Aviation Industry Corp. of China.
The four-spoke turboprop is used in countries including China and Sudan.
Aircraft incidents, both civilian and military, are not uncommon in the Southeast Asian country.
A military helicopter crashed last June in central Myanmar, killing three military personnel on board. Five military personnel were killed last February after an air force aircraft crashed in the country’s capital, Naypyitaw, media reported.
CBC News – Figures, debris found in search for missing Myanmar aircraft
Bods, debris found in search for missing Myanmar aircraft
The Associated Press
Last Updated:Jun 08, two thousand seventeen 6:47 AM ET
Myanmar military personnel salvage the wheel of a downed transportation plane from the Andaman Sea on Thursday. Myanmar Military News/EPA
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Figures and aircraft debris were found in the sea off the southern coast of Myanmar on Thursday by a navy ship searching for a military plane which went missing with one hundred twenty two soldiers, family members and team on board.
Ten bods, six adults and four children, were found about thirty five kilometres off the southern coastal town of Launglon by navy and civilian ships, the military said in its latest statement posted on its official Facebook page.
The search by nine navy ships, five military planes and two helicopters, would proceed with help from civilian boats, it said.
The Chinese-made Y-8-200F transport plane vanished on Wednesday after taking off from the coastal town of Myeik on a weekly flight to Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon.
The plane lost contact twenty nine minutes after takeoff while flying at Legal,000 feet (Five,485 metres) over the Andaman Sea, about seventy kilometres west of the town of Dawei, the military said.
An aircraft wheel, two life jackets and some bags with clothes — believed to be from the missing plane — were found earlier.
Some patches of oil were spotted some twenty nine kilometres from Dawei, the military said.
More than forty ambulances and scores of medics and emergency staff were heading to the fishing town of Sanlan where boats carrying bods were set to arrive around mid-day, said Hla Thein, a member of a hospital emergency team.
The plane was carrying one hundred twenty two passengers, including one hundred eight soldiers and their family members and fourteen squad. The military said the one hundred eight passengers included fifteen children, fifty eight adults and thirty five soldiers.
It is the rainy season in Myanmar but a civil aviation official said the weather had been “normal” with good visibility when the plane took off.
The aircraft was bought in March two thousand sixteen and had a total of eight hundred nine flying hours. It was carrying Two.17 tonnes of supplies, the military said.
A Chinese military Y-8 aircraft flies over the Pacific, near Japan, in October 2013. A similar plane belonging to Myanmar’s military went missing Wednesday inbetween Yangon and the southern city of Myeik. (Joint Staff Office of the Defence Ministry of Japan/Reuters)
Nicknamed the “air camel” in Chinese, the multi-purpose aircraft was approved for production in one thousand nine hundred eighty and is still being produced by Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation, a unit of state-owned Aviation Industry Corp. of China.
The four-spoke turboprop is used in countries including China and Sudan.
Aircraft incidents, both civilian and military, are not uncommon in the Southeast Asian country.
A military helicopter crashed last June in central Myanmar, killing three military personnel on board. Five military personnel were killed last February after an air force aircraft crashed in the country’s capital, Naypyitaw, media reported.
CBC News – Figures, debris found in search for missing Myanmar aircraft
Bods, debris found in search for missing Myanmar aircraft
The Associated Press
Last Updated:Jun 08, two thousand seventeen 6:47 AM ET
Myanmar military personnel salvage the wheel of a downed transportation plane from the Andaman Sea on Thursday. Myanmar Military News/EPA
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Figures and aircraft debris were found in the sea off the southern coast of Myanmar on Thursday by a navy ship searching for a military plane which went missing with one hundred twenty two soldiers, family members and team on board.
Ten bods, six adults and four children, were found about thirty five kilometres off the southern coastal town of Launglon by navy and civilian ships, the military said in its latest statement posted on its official Facebook page.
The search by nine navy ships, five military planes and two helicopters, would proceed with help from civilian boats, it said.
The Chinese-made Y-8-200F transport plane vanished on Wednesday after taking off from the coastal town of Myeik on a weekly flight to Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon.
The plane lost contact twenty nine minutes after takeoff while flying at Legal,000 feet (Five,485 metres) over the Andaman Sea, about seventy kilometres west of the town of Dawei, the military said.
An aircraft wheel, two life jackets and some bags with clothes — believed to be from the missing plane — were found earlier.
Some patches of oil were spotted some twenty nine kilometres from Dawei, the military said.
More than forty ambulances and scores of medics and emergency staff were heading to the fishing town of Sanlan where boats carrying figures were set to arrive around mid-day, said Hla Thein, a member of a hospital emergency team.
The plane was carrying one hundred twenty two passengers, including one hundred eight soldiers and their family members and fourteen team. The military said the one hundred eight passengers included fifteen children, fifty eight adults and thirty five soldiers.
It is the rainy season in Myanmar but a civil aviation official said the weather had been “normal” with good visibility when the plane took off.
The aircraft was bought in March two thousand sixteen and had a total of eight hundred nine flying hours. It was carrying Two.17 tonnes of supplies, the military said.
A Chinese military Y-8 aircraft flies over the Pacific, near Japan, in October 2013. A similar plane belonging to Myanmar’s military went missing Wednesday inbetween Yangon and the southern city of Myeik. (Joint Staff Office of the Defence Ministry of Japan/Reuters)
Nicknamed the “air camel” in Chinese, the multi-purpose aircraft was approved for production in one thousand nine hundred eighty and is still being produced by Shaanxi Aircraft Corporation, a unit of state-owned Aviation Industry Corp. of China.
The four-spoke turboprop is used in countries including China and Sudan.
Aircraft incidents, both civilian and military, are not uncommon in the Southeast Asian country.
A military helicopter crashed last June in central Myanmar, killing three military personnel on board. Five military personnel were killed last February after an air force aircraft crashed in the country’s capital, Naypyitaw, media reported.