Burma military plane crash kills four
Four Burma military personnel were killed when an air force utility aircraft crashed after taking off from the airport in Naypyitaw, officials said.
An information ministry statement identified the aircraft, which crashed in a rice field about a mile from the airport, as a Beech 1900, a 19-passenger twin-engine turboprop no longer in production. Photos of the crashed plane showed that most of its fuselage had burned up.
The dead included a major, two captains and a corporal, said Aung Ye Win of the office of the Burma army commander. The sole survivor was another corporal who has been taken to hospital.
Maung Tin, a farmer, said he was working when he saw the plane crash, and ran over to it to try to break one of its windows with a spade in order to get the passengers out.
“As I cracked the glass window and pulled one of them out, fire was all over the plane,” he said.
