Eleven people were injured as a plane slid off a runway while
landing at Yangon airport in Myanmar today , police said , as a
freak storm hit the city.
Images on Facebook showed a crumpled Biman Bangladesh Airlines
plane lying on the grass at the side of the runway .
An AFP photographer saw an injured woman being carried to an
ambulance on a stretcher .
“ One pilot , an air hostess and nine passengers were slightly
injured, ” a police officer at the airport told AFP, asking not to be
named, adding that the plane slid from the runway as it landed at
6 .50 pm (1220 GMT ).
it landed, ” he added, saying that the nose and both wings were
damaged.
Yangon International Airport did not confirm the crash but
announced closure of “ runway operations ” due to heavy rains .
Other incoming flights were diverted to the capital Naypyidaw
before Yangon airport re - opened at 9 .15 pm (0245 GMT ).
Thirty- one people were on board the stricken aircraft from
Bangladesh , Myanmar, Canada , China, India, France and
Switzerland.
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 incidents .
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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