- Myanma Airways Flight 635
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Myanma Airways Flight 635 Accident summary Date 24 August 1998 Type Controlled flight into terrain Site near Tachilek, Myanmar Passengers 32 Crew 4 Fatalities 36 (all) Aircraft type Fokker F-27 Friendship Operator Myanma Airways Tail number XY-AEN Flight origin Yangon International Airport Destination Tachilek Airport On the 24 August 1998 Myanma Airways Flight 635, run by a Fokker F-27 Friendship (registration XY-AEN) took off from Yangon International Airport on a short 2 hour flight to Tachilek Airport. The last radio contact with Flight 635 happened when the flight crew reported that they were overhead Tachilek and descending from 9500 feet. As they were descending, flight 635 crashed into a 500-foot hill two miles from the airport. The accident killed all 36 passengers and crew.[1]
References
Apr 20 Air France Flight 422
May 25 PIA Flight 544
May 26 MIAT Mongolian Airlines crash
Aug 06 Wasaya Airways Flight 804
Aug 24 Myanma Airways Flight 635Sep 02 Swissair Flight 111
Sep 25 PauknAir Flight 4101
Sep 29 Lionair Flight 602
Oct 10 Lignes Aériennes Congolaises crash
Dec 11 Thai Airways International Flight 261Incidents resulting in at least 50 deaths shown in italics. Deadliest incident shown in bold smallcaps.Categories:- Aviation accidents and incidents in 1998
- Aviation accidents and incidents in Burma
- 1998 in Burma
- Shan State
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