Bangkok Post(3/7/99)

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<center>Burma plane crash


</center>Rangoon-A Myanmar Airways turboprop on a domestic chartered
cargo flight crashed a few minutes before landing in western Burma
yesterday and all eight people aboard were feared dead, industry sources
said. The sources, Who work in the air cargo industry and did not want to
be identified, said the Fokker aircraft crashed about five minutes before
it was due to land at Sittwe, about 560km northwest of Rangoon. Airline
and government officials declined to comment.