by Maung Dee
Tuesday, 19 February 2008 00:00
New Delhi (mizzima) – A domestic passenger carrier flight broke down at an airport in Northern Burma on Tuesday afternoon after failing to take-off due to engine failure.
The Air Bagan flight, scheduled to take off for Myit Kyi Na to Putao town in Burma's northern state of Kachin, broke down after overrunning the airport's runway for nearly three hundred feet as it fail to take-off, a source close to the airline said.
"It happened as the plane can't take off despite running on high speed. It overruns the runway for three hundred feet," the source said.
The source said the pilot broke his arm, but none of the 57 passengers on board were killed, adding that the plane was damage on left wind and on the main body.
This is the second time that Air Bagan had technical problems. In 2007, the airline's ATR 42 plane landed with its engine on fire at Heho Airport in Shan State. While there were no casualties and major injuries, a foreign tourist was reported suffering from slight injury as he was leaving the Aircraft from an emergency exit.
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