Videos Show Plane Crashed in Field After Overshooting Runway
January 23, 2024
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At least eight people were injured after a Myanmar military plane airlifting its soldiers out of India overshot the runway at Lengpui Airport in Mizoram on Tuesday, officials said.
The injured were among 14 people on board the aircraft taking home the soldiers who had entered India last week, Indian police and military officials told news agency Reuters.
Video footage and still images showed the stricken plane nose down in thick vegetation. The fuselage appeared to be misshapen, with damage to the middle of the aircraft.
India Today, a weekly English-language Indian news magazine, shared photographs from the scene on social-media site X (formerly Twitter).
#Mizoram: A Myanmar military plane met with an accident on January 23 after landing at #Lengpui Airport in Mizoram.
As per sources, the military plane came from Myanmar to airlift the soldiers who had crossed the Indo-#Myanmar border and entered Mizoram last week. pic.twitter.com/k2Pm4ar74T
— India Today NE (@IndiaTodayNE) January 23, 2024
The accompanying caption read: “A Myanmar military plane met with an accident on January 23 after landing at #Lengpui Airport in Mizoram. As per sources, the military plane came from Myanmar to airlift the soldiers who had crossed the Indo-#Myanmar border and entered Mizoram last week.”
India-based independent journalist Jon Suante posted footage of the aftermath of the crash on X.
At least eight crew members of a Myanmar Air Force aircraft were injured after plane skidded off Lengpui airport in Mizoram.
The Myanmar Air Force fixed wing transport aircraft came to Lengpui airport to take back the remaining 92 Myanmar army personnel to their country.
Out… pic.twitter.com/bprJ6CWpNO
— Jon Suante (@jon_suante) January 23, 2024
Newsweek is seeking to obtain further details on the accident.
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
The wreckage of a Myanmar military jet that came down near Kyun Kone village, about an hour away from the capital Naypyidaw, on April 3, 2018. A Myanmar military plane crashed when it overshot an Indian runway on Tuesday. AFP via Getty Images
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