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| Unidentified plane crashes into sea off Myanmar, search underway | Unidentified plane crashes into sea off Myanmar, search underway |
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| “An unidentified aircraft” has crashed into the sea off the west coast of Myanmar, a Civil Aviation Department official said, as cited by Reuters, adding that Myanmar authorities are trying to locate the plane. | “An unidentified aircraft” has crashed into the sea off the west coast of Myanmar, a Civil Aviation Department official said, as cited by Reuters, adding that Myanmar authorities are trying to locate the plane. |
| “The only thing I can tell you for sure at the moment is that it is not an aircraft from our domestic airlines, so far as we’ve checked,” senior department official Tin Maung Ni told Reuters. | “The only thing I can tell you for sure at the moment is that it is not an aircraft from our domestic airlines, so far as we’ve checked,” senior department official Tin Maung Ni told Reuters. |
| “None of ours have been reported [with] any problems,” the official added. “We’re still trying to find out more about the crashed aircraft.” | “None of ours have been reported [with] any problems,” the official added. “We’re still trying to find out more about the crashed aircraft.” |
| The country’s aviation authorities were alerted about the incident by regional “sources,” Ni said, adding that Civil Aviation Department staff was sent to investigate the area of the alleged crash. | |
| No “companies operating offshore in the area and overflying” Myanmar have reported about the incident, he added. | |
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