An aircraft has skidded off the runway in Myanmar, breaking into pieces in the process. The Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight was carrying an estimated 33 people, four of whom were injured in the crash. The Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft departed Bangladesh’s Dhaka-Srahjalal International Airport this afternoon before its rocky landing at Myanmar’s Yangon International Airport. The incident was a result of poor weather conditions, a Biman Airlines spokesperson told local media. Flight BG060 was manned by two pilots and two flight attendants. One of the pilots was among the injured, but the airline spokesperson claimed no one onboard had suffered “life threatening” injuries. Yangon Airport has been closed following the crash, with all subsequent incoming and outbound flights currently redirected or cancelled. Pictures shared on social media show the extent of the damage to the plane; the body of the jet appears crumpled and the fuselage broken in places by the impact, while the wings also look damaged. Biman is the flag carrier of Bangladesh. The incident follows a plane crash in Russia just a few days ago. Forty-one people died aboard Aeroflot flight SU1492 on 6 May after the jet’s tail burst into flames.<doc-sep>Biman Bangladesh airlines passenger after it slid off a runway at Yangon International airport. Eleven people were injured as a plane slid off a runway while landing at Yangon airport in Myanmar Wednesday, police said, as a freak storm hit the city. Images on Facebook showed a crumpled Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane lying on the grass at the side of the runway. An AFP photographer saw an injured woman being carried to an ambulance on a stretcher. "One pilot, an air hostess and nine passengers were slightly injured," a police officer at the airport told AFP, asking not to be named, adding that the plane slid from the runway as it landed at 6.50pm (1220 GMT). "It happened near Terminal 3 where it fell onto the cargo runway as it landed," he added, saying that the nose and both wings were damaged. Yangon International Airport did not confirm the crash but announced a closure of "runway operations" due to heavy rains. Other incoming flights were diverted to the capital Naypyidaw before Yangon airport re-opened at 9.15pm (0245 GMT). Thirty-one people were on board the stricken aircraft from Bangladesh, Myanmar, Canada, China, India, France and Switzerland. Civilian airline accidents are relatively rare in Myanmar although there have been a series of crashes of military aircraft. Three fighter pilots were killed last year in three separate incidents. Bad weather caused a military plane to crash into the Andaman sea in 2017 with 122 people on board, one of the deadliest aviation accidents in the country's history.<doc-sep>To improve the performance of our website, show the most relevant news products and targeted advertising, we collect technical impersonal information about you, including through the tools of our partners. You can find a detailed description of how we use your data in our Privacy Policy. For a detailed description of the technologies, please see the Cookie and Automatic Logging Policy. By clicking on the "Accept & Close" button, you provide your explicit consent to the processing of your data to achieve the above goal. You can withdraw your consent using the method specified in the Privacy Policy.<doc-sep>See the recovery efforts in Gaza as ceasefire appears to hold 'Is everything I'm trying to do pointless? 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Macron is the first French leader since 2010 to visit the East African nation, which has long accused France of complicity in the killing of some 800,000 mostly Tutsi Rwandans. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images) Relative of detained Iranian-Americans fears they will not survive Myanmar National Airlines made an emergency landing on its nose after its gear failure, according to a statement released on its facebook page. (CNN) — A pilot in Myanmar is being hailed as a hero after landing a plane Sunday on only its rear wheels, after the passenger jet’s landing gear failed. Myanmar Airlines Flight 103 was headed from Yangon to Mandalay when the pilot discovered the problem. Myanmar National Airlines/Myanmar National Airlines The plane was headed in for landing when the pilot discovered the problem. In a statement, the airline said pilot Captain Myat Moe Aung “followed emergency procedures and did the fuel burn out to reduce the landing weight,” before bringing the jet down onto its rear wheels, lowering the nose carefully onto the runway on which it skidded for about 25 seconds before stopping. There were no casualties or injuries from the incident, the airline confirmed. Video from inside the plane showed smoke rising from underneath as passengers scrambled to disembark. STR/AFP/AFP/Getty Images A general view shows a Myanmar National Airlines passenger plane after an emergency landing at Mandalay international airport on May 12, 2019. Following the incident, emergency vehicles surrounded the plane as it rested on its nose on the tarmac. “The pilot did a great job,” Win Khant, Myanmar’s transport minister, told Reuters. Sunday’s emergency landing comes days after another plane in Myanmar skidded off the runway. At least 17 people were injured on May 8 when the Biman Bangladesh Airlines jet bounced during a landing in heavy winds and half skidded half crashed off the runway, damaging the plane and sending passengers flying about inside. CNN’s James Griffiths contributed reporting.<doc-sep>
A Myanmar pilot saved the day after his aircraft’s landing gear failed, safely putting the jet on the runway with no front wheels on Sunday, an official said. The touchdown – in which no one was hurt – was the second instance of a malfunctioning flight in Myanmar in less than a week. Myanmar National Airlines flight UB-103 – an Embraer-190 model – was carrying 82 passengers and a crew of seven when it touched the ground at about 9am in Mandalay, a city popular with foreign tourists. An unverified video circulated on social media showed a graceful landing before the plane’s nose dipped gradually to the runway, and the craft slowly ground to a halt. Ye Htut Aung, deputy director general of Myanmar’s civil aviation department, said the pilot tried repeatedly to deploy the front landing gear – first through its computer system, then manually. “They tried hard twice by flying around twice and asked [the flight tower] to check whether the nose wheel dropped or not,” Ye Htut Aung said, calling it a “technical fault”. “So they had to land with the back wheels ... The pilot could land it skilfully,” he said. “There were no casualties.” Ye Htut Aung said engineers sent by Myanmar National Airlines would examine the aircraft, adding that all jets had a daily flight check. For its part, Embraer said in a statement it was “offering its full cooperation to the aviation authorities in order to aid in the investigation”. Passenger Soe Moe said: “Smoke came out a little when we landed ... All passengers are OK.” Sunday’s incident came just four days after a Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane skidded off a runway while landing at Yangon airport in a storm, injuring 11 passengers. Myanmar’s monsoon season has caused problems for commercial and military flights in the past. A military plane crashed into the Andaman Sea in 2017, killing all 122 people on board in one of the deadliest aviation accidents in the country’s history. Authorities blamed bad weather. In 2015, an Air Bagan passenger plane veered off the runway amid bad weather and heavy rain. A passenger and a person on the ground were killed.