92 Soldiers Sent Back To Myanmar ,Day After Plane Crash Lands In Mizoram

Defense News ,Myanmar & India :- In a recent incident at Mizoram's Lengpui airport near Aizawl, a Myanmar military cargo plane crash-landed after encountering engine trouble. The Assam Rifles announced on Wednesday that, one day after the mishap, 92 Myanmarese soldiers involved in the incident were sent back to their country.

The Y-8 cargo plane from the Myanmar Air Force overshot the tabletop runway, crash-landing into a bush. The aircraft, carrying 14 people, had arrived to retrieve 92 soldiers who had crossed into India the previous week after clashes with an ethnic insurgent group. The 14 crew members, miraculously surviving the crash, were later airlifted to Sittwe port town in Myanmar's Rakhine state by another Myanmarese aircraft.

This latest evacuation brings the total number of repatriated Myanmarese army personnel from Mizoram to 635 since November of the previous year. These soldiers had entered Mizoram after their camps were overrun by rebel forces.

Officials stated that the aircraft accident resulted from a malfunction in one of its two engines. Despite the experienced pilot, who had previously landed at Lengpui airport, the engine issue led to the unfortunate incident. Mizoram shares a 510-km-long border with Myanmar.