Passenger Plane BREAKS APART After Skidding off Runway in Myanmar (PHOTOS)

Yangon International Airport has been closed after a Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane skidded off the runway during a go-around, suffering extensive damage and leaving 4 people injured, Bangladesh News reported.

Flight BG060, reportedly carrying 33 passengers, slid off the runway during landing at about 6:20 p.m. local time (around 12:00 GMT), according to the Daily Star.

"It was a crash landing. I don't have any details on casualties. There were 28 passengers on the plane", a Bangladeshi Biman Airlines representative told Sputnik.

Firefighters and multiple ambulances have promptly arrived at the scene.

"Nineteen passengers, including two pilots were admitted to hospital to treat their injuries. Eleven passengers were released upon receiving treatment at the airport clinic", Bangladeshi Ambassador to Myanmar Manjurul Karim Khan Chowdhury said, as quoted by the Dhaka Tribune newspaper.

Biman airway plane slipped off the Yangon international airport runway adue to the heavy rain during the landing, the plane has broken into 3 pieces, other flights can not land and now traffic in the air. #myanmar pic.twitter.com/554HQz9R9e

— Hnin Yadana Zaw (@hninyadanazaw) 8 мая 2019 г.

Earlier, the Daily Star reported, citing sources at Biman, that fifteen people, including a pilot of the aircraft, were injured.

​Photos of the accident at Yangon International Airport have already appeared online.

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A Biman plane crashed on the runway in
Yangon International Airport.@BimanAirlines pic.twitter.com/F81jx3BZRg

— Aung Bo Bo (@HaB138) 8 мая 2019 г.

— KyawWin (@mrkyawwin) 8 мая 2019 г.