Wreckage of missing Myanmar military plane found

Wreckage of missing Myanmar military plane found

Destruction and bodies from a Myanmar military flight that had disappeared Wednesday evening have been found in the Andaman Sea, the military has affirmed.

Air ship parts and the remaining parts of two grown-ups and a kid, alongside life coats and baggage were found at 8:18 a.m. Thursday neighborhood time (9:48 p.m. Wednesday ET), 14 miles west of Kyauk Ni Maw in Rakhine express, the announcement said. The hunt operation is continuous.

The plane, with 122 individuals on load up, lost contact 29 minutes subsequent to taking off from the beach front town of Myeik. It was made a beeline for Yangon and part of a consistently planned military flight, a military representative told CNN on Wednesday.

Of the 122 individuals on board, 108 were travelers and 14 were team, Capt. Myat Min Oo said. Myanmar state media detailed that 15 youngsters and 58 regular citizen grown-ups were among the missing. Alternate travelers were military faculty.

Myanmar specialists lost contact with the plane at 1:35 p.m. neighborhood time. The plane was allegedly flying at a height of 18,000 feet.

Nine Navy boats and three planes are hunting down the plane in the Andaman Sea toward the south of Yangon.

The air ship was a Chinese-made Shaanxi Y8-200F four-turboprop plane. It had as of late been obtained and logged 809 flight hours.

Wreckage of missing Myanmar military plane found

Early reports said weather wasn't to blame. Kyaw Kyaw Htay, a civil aviation official at Myeik airport said the weather had been "normal" when the flight had departed, according to reports.

However, given the season and satellite imagery CNN meteorologist Tom Sater says he wouldn't rule out storms being the cause for the aircraft's failure.

"This is the wet season and thunderstorms and showers do develop but nothing significant was noted at the time the plane went missing," he said.

"If (the pilot) entered this region at 18,000 feet, that aircraft is going to enter tropical rains so it could have been that there was a downburst or heavy rainfall.

"We know in the next 24-48 hours there will be more rain at the site that they have the six vessels, could see another 80-120 mm (3.1 - 4.7 in) of rainfall," which would impede the ongoing search operation for the aircraft, he added.

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Source: CNN