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The plane was mostly carrying families of military personnel.

Debris from a missing Myanmar military plane carrying more than 100 people was found in the Andaman Sea late Wednesday, a local official and an air force source told AFP.

"Now they have found pieces of the damaged plane in the sea 136 miles (218 km) away from Dawei city," said Naing Lin Zaw, a tourism official in Myeik city, adding that the navy was still searching the sea.

An air force source requesting anonymity confirmed a navy search and rescue ship had found pieces of the plane.
"Communication was lost suddenly at about 1:35 pm (07:05 GMT) when it reached about 20 miles west of Dawei town," the office of military commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing said in a statement.

Four naval ships and two air force planes have been sent to search for the plane, which was flying between the southern city of Myeik and Yangon at more than 18,000 feet when it went missing.

Dawei is a port town an hour's flight south of Yangon, Myanmar's commercial capital.

The office said 90 passengers -- servicemen from Myeik air force command and family members -- were on board as well as 14 crew members.

It said the plane was delivered in March last year and had 809 flying hours.

"We think it was a technical failure. Weather is fine there," an airport source told AFP, asking not to be named, adding there was no news of the plane so far.

Myanmar's military fleet has a chequered recent history of plane crashes.

All five crew died when an air force plane burst into flames soon after taking off from the capital Naypyidaw in February last year.

Three army officers were killed in June when their Mi-2 helicopter crashed into a hillside and burst into flames in south-central Bago.

The missing plane is a Y-8F-200 four-engine turboprop, a Chinese-made model still commonly used by Myanmar's military for transporting cargo.

The former military junta bought many of the aircraft from Myanmar's giant neighbour during their 50 years of isolated rule, when they were squeezed by Western sanctions.

A former executive at Myanmar's aviation ministry said it was one of China's most popular military and civilian transport aircraft.

A surge in demand for air travel as Myanmar opens up has stretched the impoverished country's aviation infrastructure, in particular in remote airports.

Commercial jets have also suffered frequent incidents.

The worst in recent years was in 2012 when an Air Bagan jet crash-landed in thick fog and burst into flames short of the runway at Heho airport, killing one passenger and a motorcyclist on the ground.

http://m.khaleejtimes.com/international/rest-of-asia/plane-with-104-on-board-crashes

Oh dear Lord..... Not again!!!!!!




I jus hope this religious lunatics haven't played their antics..




Rip to the dead... .

nawa. 111 on board

The Plan crashed already so sad
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/international/rest-of-asia/plane-with-104-on-board-crashes

doctimonyeka:
Oh dear Lord..... Not again!!!!!!



I hope they are found alive...




I jus hope this religious lunatics haven't played their antics...

ehya

na wa

So sad

Another China product.

Since there is no confirmed report that they are dead, i hereby pray for them to be found alive IJN

what a pity

This serious!!;!!

doctimonyeka:
Oh dear Lord..... Not again!!!!!!



I hope they are found alive...




I jus hope this religious lunatics haven't played their antics...

Can you read? Or you just have problem comprehending?

Not again.

E don tai weh plane crash

Lord have mercy!!!

They are all alive

Once I hear a plane is missing, automatically know it'll be bad news ... They can't fly long without ground comm.
RIP to d lost lives

Jeez, sad!

When are they arresting Buhari
This is bad

LEOSIRSIR:
The Plan crashed already so sad
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/international/rest-of-asia/plane-with-104-on-board-crashes

Na wa.... Jus like that.... This life is really meaningless...

Seems like our fanatic, peaceful brothers are at it again.

doctimonyeka:
Oh dear Lord..... Not again!!!!!!



I hope they are found alive...




I jus hope this religious lunatics haven't played their antics...

go up and read again. this time slowly in a tranquil environment

doctimonyeka:
Oh dear Lord..... Not again!!!!!!




I jus hope this religious lunatics haven't played their antics..




Rip to the dead... .

What is this one saying?

NoFavors:
Can you read? Or you just have problem comprehending?

you can't comment without insulting someone? I pity you..

Which prophet caused this thing now.

Every begining of year prophets of doom will be guessing.

Wait soon one will come and claim this accident like isis

Again? Osalobua ooooo

doctimonyeka:
Oh dear Lord..... Not again!!!!!!



I hope they are found alive...




I jus hope this religious lunatics haven't played their antics...

I hope ISIS will not come and claim responsibility sha!

doctimonyeka:
Oh dear Lord..... Not again!!!!!!



I hope they are found alive...




I jus hope this religious lunatics haven't played their antics...

this is the reason peeps like you fail in life and keep blaming FG for their failure.