| Date: | Tuesday 3 October 1978 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Fokker F-27 Friendship 600 |
| Owner/operator: | Burma Airways |
| Registration: | XY-ADY |
| MSN: | 10572 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1978 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 854 hours |
| Cycles: | 796 flights |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 44 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Sagaing -
 Myanmar
|
| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Mandalay-Chanmyathazi Airport (VYCZ) |
Both engines lost power on climbout. A forced landing was carried out on a sandbank of the Irrawaddy River.
Sources:
Willem Wendt
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport (AMS); March 1978
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