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Myanmar, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016. A number of military personnel were feared dead after a small aircraft went down in a field near the airport. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo) |
February 10, 2016 - EARTH - Here are the latest incidents of plane crashes across the planet.
Five dead in Myanmar military plane crash
All five crew died when a Myanmar air force plane crashed in the capital Naypyidaw on Wednesday, bursting into flames soon after take off and smashing into a nearby field, the military said.One man was pulled alive from the blazing wreckage and taken to hospital but later died of his injuries, according to a rare news statement on the official Myanmar army Facebook page.
"Naypyidaw airport authorities, the fire brigade, air force personnel and local residents all worked together to extinguish the fire," the statement said, adding the cause of the crash was under investigation.
Hundreds of people gathered in the area as officials sifted through the smouldering wreckage of the propeller plane, according to an AFP reporter at the scene earlier Wednesday.
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The Beechcraft passenger plane took off from the Naypyidaw airfield in the mid-morning on a routine patrol, but burst into flames soon after leaving the runway, according to an airport official, who asked not to be named because the incident involved a military aircraft.
The Ministry of Information earlier published a series of pictures of the remains of the aircraft showing just one wing intact and a thick stream of smoke rising into the air.
Myanmar has a busy aviation sector, partly to compensate for the country's poor road and rail infrastructure.
While news of military air crashes is relatively rare, there have been several incidents involving commercial planes in recent years.
In July, an Air Bagan ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop carrying 49 passengers skidded off the runway after landing during heavy rain at Yangon International Airport. - Yahoo.
Indonesian training jet Super Tucano crashes onto residential area, killing two
An Indonesian air force plane crashed into a house on the country's main island of Java on Wednesday, killing both people on board and critically injuring a woman in the home.Major Hamdi Londong, spokesman for the Abdul Rahman Saleh air force base, told the DPA news agency that the aircraft was on a routine training flight when it came down close to the base, located in Malang, a hilly town in East Java province.
Londong said that the two pilots in the Brazilian-made Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano died instantly, and a woman living in the house was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
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A witness said that the light attack and trainer aircraft was climbing before it plunged into the residential area.
"I evacuated a man and a woman whose bodies were buried in the rubble of their own house," Agus, a rescuer on site, told the AFP news agency.
The air force said that it would conduct an investigation into the crash, the latest of several military aviation accidents.
In December, two pilots were killed when a military plane crashed in central Java while performing manoeuvres.
In June a Hercules C-130 crashed into a residential neighbourhood in Medan, the largest city on Sumatra island, killing 142 people and causing widespread destruction.
Malang is 850km east of the capital, Jakarta. - Al Jazeera.
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