All Feared Dead In Myanmar Airlifter Crash

Marhalim Abas June 08, 2017
Credit: Myanmar Air Force
KUALA LUMPUR—All 122 passengers and crew of a Myanmar air force Avic Y-8F 200 transporter are believed to have been killed after the aircraft crashed into the Andaman Sea on June 7. The bodies of two adults and a child were found by searchers on June 8, the air force says on its social media page...
Marhalim Abas

Marhalim Abas, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, covers Southeast Asian defense. He has worked as a journalist specializing in Southeast Asia defense and security since 1994, initially with the New Straits Times newspaper.

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