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Myanmar Jet May Have Crashed



Myanmar Jet May Have Crashed

 .c The Associated Press 

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) --August 25... A Myanmar Airways domestic flight missing
with 39 people aboard is believed to have crash-landed in a rice field in
Laos, a government official said today. 

No other details were immediately available. 

The Fokker Friendship aircraft was on a flight Monday from Myanmar's capital
of Yangon to the northern city of Tachilek when the crew contacted the
Tachilek control tower and complained of poor weather. 

Shortly afterward, contact was lost and Myanmar authorities mounted a search
and rescue operation. There were no foreigners on board. Two of the passengers
were infants. 

Tachilek, 350 miles north of Yangon, straddles the border with Thailand in the
remote, opium-rich Golden Triangle, where the borders of Myanmar, Thailand and
Laos converge. 

Myanmar is also known as Burma. 

AP-NY-08-25-98 0728EDT