BBC-Plane crash in Burma

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Friday, July 2, 1999 Published at 15:45 GMT 16:45 UK


World: Asia-Pacific

Plane crash in Burma

Reports from western Burma say a cargo plane on a domestic flight has
crashed as it was approaching the airport in the town of Sittwe.

The plane was a Fokker of the state airline, Myanmar Airways.

Unconfirmed reports say there were eight people on board and all were
killed.

It's the third fatal crash involving a Myanmar Airways plane in the last
eighteen months.

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