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December 26, 2012, Wednesday
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A flight packed with Christmas tourists crash-landed on a road in central Myanmar yesterday, killing three people and injuring 11, officials said.
Four foreigners were among the injured on the Air Bagan flight, the airline said. It said the fatalities were all Myanmar citizens - a tour guide and an 11-year-old child on board the plane and a man riding a motorcycle on the road where the plane came down.
The flight was carrying 63 passengers, including 51 foreigners, and six crew members from the city of Mandalay to Heho airport in Shan State, the gateway to a popular tourist destination, Inle Lake, Air Bagan said in a brief statement on its Facebook page.
Air Bagan identified the injured tourists as two Americans, a Briton and a Korean. It described the incident as an "emergency landing."
Authorities gave a different and more dramatic account, saying the pilot mistook the road for a runway due to bad weather.
"While descending, the plane mistakenly landed ... due to fog beside the runway," state television reported. It said the aircraft made a hard landing on a road and then came to a stop in a nearby rice paddy field.
"The rear end of the plane broke and caught fire," state TV said, carrying a statement posted on Deputy Information Minister Ye Htut's Facebook page. Rescuers brought the fire under control about 45 minutes later, he said.
Witnesses said smoke filled the plane when it hit the ground and was still rising from the plane's badly charred wreckage hours later.
Air Bagan is one of five private airlines that fly domestic routes in Myanmar.
Four foreigners were among the injured on the Air Bagan flight, the airline said. It said the fatalities were all Myanmar citizens - a tour guide and an 11-year-old child on board the plane and a man riding a motorcycle on the road where the plane came down.
The flight was carrying 63 passengers, including 51 foreigners, and six crew members from the city of Mandalay to Heho airport in Shan State, the gateway to a popular tourist destination, Inle Lake, Air Bagan said in a brief statement on its Facebook page.
Air Bagan identified the injured tourists as two Americans, a Briton and a Korean. It described the incident as an "emergency landing."
Authorities gave a different and more dramatic account, saying the pilot mistook the road for a runway due to bad weather.
"While descending, the plane mistakenly landed ... due to fog beside the runway," state television reported. It said the aircraft made a hard landing on a road and then came to a stop in a nearby rice paddy field.
"The rear end of the plane broke and caught fire," state TV said, carrying a statement posted on Deputy Information Minister Ye Htut's Facebook page. Rescuers brought the fire under control about 45 minutes later, he said.
Witnesses said smoke filled the plane when it hit the ground and was still rising from the plane's badly charred wreckage hours later.
Air Bagan is one of five private airlines that fly domestic routes in Myanmar.
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