45 Killed in Crash of Burmese Airliner

All 45 people aboard a Burma Airways plane missing since Sunday died when the aircraft crashed into an 8,200-foot mountain in eastern Burma, the government reported Wednesday. All of the dead were believed to be Burmese.

The wreckage of the Fokker Friendship 27 plane was sighted on the ridges of Menei Mountain about 40 miles from Heho, which is 280 miles northeast of Rangoon, the government news agency said. The control tower at the Heho airport lost contact with the plane about 10 minutes after it took off Sunday on an hourlong flight to Mong Hsat, officials said.