Burma military plane crash kills four

Four Burma military personnel were killed when an air force utility aircraft crashed after taking off from the airport in Naypyitaw, officials said.

An information ministry statement identified the aircraft, which crashed in a rice field about a mile from the airport, as a Beech 1900, a 19-passenger twin-engine turboprop no longer in production. Photos of the crashed plane showed that most of its fuselage had burned up.