The Pieces of a Myanmar military plane which went missing with more than 100 soldiers and family members aboard have been found in the Andaman Sea. Navy ships and aircraft have been searching all afternoon after the plane lost contact with air traffic controllers. More than a dozen children were believed to be among the passengers on the plane.
Speaking to AFP, an Air Force official said that a navy search and rescue ship had found pieces of the plane in the sea an hour’s flight south of Yangon, Myanmar’s commercial capital.
A former executive at the aviation ministry said many of the aircraft in Myanmar’s fleet were old and decrepit.
“Myanmar air force has very bad safety performance,” he said, asking to remain nameless.
Myanmar’s military fleet has a chequered recent history of plane crashes.
