Myanma Airways Flight 635 [SEP] point in time
Myanma Airways Flight 635
On 24 August 1998 Myanma Airways Flight 635, run by a Fokker F-27 Friendship (registration XY-AEN) took off from Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma), on a two-hour flight to Tachilek Airport in Tachilek, Myanmar. The last radio contact with Flight 635 happened when the flight crew reported that they were over Tachilek and descending from 9,500 feet (2,896 m). As they were descending, Flight 635 crashed into a 500-foot (152-m) hill two miles (
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