Cargo hold is a good translation.
BTW I'm curious about the use of four main wheels. I would have expected four pairs of main wheels.
China's transport, tanker & heavy lift aircraft
- Thread starter Totoro
- Start date
BTW I'm curious about the use of four main wheels. I would have expected four pairs of main wheels.
Blackstone
Brigadier
Burmese Y-8 with 105 people on board missing and probably crashed.
A plane has vanished with 105 people on board, according to reports.
The plane left the southern coastal town of Myeik in the early afternoon and was bound for Myanmar’s largest city of Yangon, but it lost contact about 20 miles west of the town of Dawei and has been declared missing, the military said.
The commander-in-chief’s office said the search and rescue was ongoing.
An airport source, who asked not to be named, said the plane was carrying 105 people.
Ships and planes have been scrambled to search for the plane, which was flying over the Andaman Sea when it went missing, the statement added.
The passengers were believed to mainly be family members of military men based in the coastal region.
‘We think it was a technical failure. Weather is fine there,’ the source told AFP, asking not to be named, adding there was no news of the plane so far.
A spokesman said: ‘Communication was lost suddenly at about 1:35 pm (07:05 GMT) when it reached about 20 miles west of Dawei town.’
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
Plane crash all the time and yes it is Y8 but so many thing can go wrong that cause plane to crash like Bad weather, Lack of proper maintenance or part , inexperience pilot .So it cannot be attributed to bad design. China has hundred of this plane with minimum accident
Apparently this plane fly in bad weather and it has logged more than 900 hr with no problem
Myanmar Military Plane With 104 Aboard Vanishes
By and WAI MOEJUNE 7, 2017
Share This Page soldiers, including children, as well as 14 crew members.
The navy and air force mobilized ships and planes to search for the aircraft in the area near Myike Air Base, about 350 miles south of the country’s commercial capital, Yangon, the office of the commander in chief, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, said in a statement. The plane, a Chinese-made Y-8, was en route to Yangon.
The flight path would have taken the aircraft over the Andaman Sea. The weather in the area was bad, residents said, with pounding rain typical of the monsoon season that is now enveloping Myanmar.
Maj. Gen. Aung Ye Win, the chief of military information, said the search operation had not found any trace of the plane or bodies.
Myanmar’s military plays an important political role in the country even as a civilian government, with , has been in power since 2015. The army holds 25 percent of the seats in Parliament and controls three crucial ministries, including home affairs.
The missing plane had logged 809 flying hours, a statement on the military’s Facebook page said. The Y-8 is commonly used for transport, reconnaissance, and search and rescue. It has four propellers and is modeled on a Russian prototype, according to a description in the Chinese state news media.
Local news media Myanmar’s Defense Ministry as saying that in 2015, the Air Force had bought 29 airplanes and seven helicopters in the preceding four years, coinciding with an overall in military spending in Southeast Asia.
Apparently this plane fly in bad weather and it has logged more than 900 hr with no problem
Myanmar Military Plane With 104 Aboard Vanishes
By and WAI MOEJUNE 7, 2017
Share This Page soldiers, including children, as well as 14 crew members.
The navy and air force mobilized ships and planes to search for the aircraft in the area near Myike Air Base, about 350 miles south of the country’s commercial capital, Yangon, the office of the commander in chief, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, said in a statement. The plane, a Chinese-made Y-8, was en route to Yangon.
The flight path would have taken the aircraft over the Andaman Sea. The weather in the area was bad, residents said, with pounding rain typical of the monsoon season that is now enveloping Myanmar.
Maj. Gen. Aung Ye Win, the chief of military information, said the search operation had not found any trace of the plane or bodies.
Myanmar’s military plays an important political role in the country even as a civilian government, with , has been in power since 2015. The army holds 25 percent of the seats in Parliament and controls three crucial ministries, including home affairs.
The missing plane had logged 809 flying hours, a statement on the military’s Facebook page said. The Y-8 is commonly used for transport, reconnaissance, and search and rescue. It has four propellers and is modeled on a Russian prototype, according to a description in the Chinese state news media.
Local news media Myanmar’s Defense Ministry as saying that in 2015, the Air Force had bought 29 airplanes and seven helicopters in the preceding four years, coinciding with an overall in military spending in Southeast Asia.
LoL extremely swollen China-sucks hemorrhoid has visibly shrunk this time.
One very plausible explanation is that the plane was carrying contraband and overweight.
A military plane plying on a weekly regular route from a border area to a major city?
That sounds like right out of Frank Lucas playbook.
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
Properly trained crew, well executed maintenance program, availability of parts and service. Y8 should last a long time like this video
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
Aircraft is robust but still need periodic ground support or else they will crash. Training of ground support is important as this video show
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
Y-9 transport airdrops heavy loads.
Here is the video
Here is the video
