2017 Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crash

When

7 Jun 2017

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

13.80° N, 98.03° E

Description

aircraft accident in Myanmar on June 6, 2017

Deaths

122

Injured

0

Cause

stall

Air transport disaster over the Andaman Sea

On 7 June 2017, a Shaanxi Y-8 aircraft of the Myanmar Air Force crashed on a flight from Myeik to Yangon, killing all 122 people on board. Debris from the aircraft was found in the Andaman Sea, 118 nautical miles (218 km) off Dawei by Myanmar Navy ships. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Myanmar's history.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “緬甸軍方的一架中國大陸製的軍用運輸機運-8自該國南部海邊城市丹老起飛後，原定計劃飛去仰光，半小時後在安達曼海失事墜毀，機上122人全部罹難。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page