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Eleven injured as storm causes plane to slide off runway in Myanmar
- Images on Facebook showed a crumpled Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane lying on the grass at the side of the runway
- An injured woman was also seen being carried to an ambulance on a stretcher
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Eleven people were injured as a plane slid off a runway while landing at Yangon airport in Myanmar on Wednesday as a freak storm hit the city, police said.
Images on Facebook showed a crumpled Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane lying on the grass at the side of the runway, and an injured woman was seen being carried to an ambulance on a stretcher.
“One pilot, an air hostess and nine passengers were slightly injured,” said a police officer at the airport, asking not to be named, adding that the plane slid from the runway as it landed at 6.50pm local time.
“It happened near Terminal 3 where it fell onto the cargo runway as it landed,” he added, saying that the nose and both wings were damaged.
Yangon International Airport did not confirm the crash, but announced that heavy rain had caused them to suspend “runway operations until further notice”. Other incoming flights were diverted to the capital Naypyidaw before Yangon airport reopened at 9.15pm.
Thirty-one people were on board from Bangladesh, Myanmar, Canada, China, India, France and Switzerland.
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Civilian airline accidents are relatively rare in Myanmar, although there have been a series of crashes of military aircraft.
Three fighter pilots were killed last year in three separate crashes. Bad weather caused a military plane to crash into the Andaman Sea in 2017 with 122 people on board, one of the deadliest aviation accidents in the country’s history.
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