ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 328901
| Date: | Saturday 25 March 1978 |
| Time: | 06:56 |
| Type: |  Fokker F-27 Friendship 200 |
| Owner/operator: | Burma Airways |
| Registration: | XY-ADK |
| MSN: | 10235 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1963 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 28634 hours |
| Cycles: | 30355 flights |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 48 / Occupants: 48 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | ca 16 km N of Yangon-Mingaladon Airport (RGN) -
 Myanmar
|
| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Yangon-Mingaladon Airport (RGN/VYYY) |
| Myitkyina Airport (MYT/VYMK) |
The aircraft lost height following takeoff from runway 06 and struck trees located 400 feet right of the extended centreline. Control was lost and the aircraft crashed in a paddy field bursting into flames.
Sources:
Aviation News 14.04.1978
Willem Wendt
Location
Images:
photo (c) Fokker, Frank Ellemers Collection; 1963
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