Myanma Airways Flight 635
Fokker F-27 Friendship · Controlled flight into terrain
From Yangon International Airport (RGN) to Tachileik Airport (THL)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 36 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 36
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Fokker F-27 Friendship
- Aircraft type
- Fokker F-27
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- XY-AEN
- Operator
- Myanma Airways
- Onboard fatalities
- 36
- Route
- From Yangon International Airport (RGN)To Tachileik Airport (THL)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
Myanma Airways Flight 635 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Yangon to Tachileik in eastern Myanmar that was operated by a Fokker F-27 Friendship (registration XY-AEN) owned by Myanmar's flag carrier Myanma Airways. On 24 August 1998, during its descent to Tachileik the flight went missing over a hill approximately two miles (3.2 km) from the airport. The search and rescue team later found the wreckage of the aircraft. The accident killed all 36 passengers and crew.
Flight
Flight UB635 took off at around 08:30 UTC, flying from Myanmar's former capital Yangon to Tachileik, a town located near the Myanmar-Thailand border in eastern Myanmar with 36 passengers and crew members. The passengers were mostly members of the Myanmar military. It was a two-hour flight and it was scheduled to land in Tachilek Airport at 02:00 UTC. The flight however missed its schedule and was declared missing by authorities.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Myanma Airways Flight 635
- Article
- Myanma Airways Flight 635
- Revision
- 1349936742 · 2026-04-19 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q6946731
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Myanma Airways Flight 635" (page 26187782, revision 1349936742)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.