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Thandwe Airport
Thandwe
Airport
is an
airport
serving Thandwe, a town in the
Rakhine
State of Myanmar
. The
IATA code
is based of the town's name during
British colonial rule
,
Sandoway
.
Airlines and
destinations
Accidents
and incidents
On
16
August 1972
, a
Douglas C-47B
, registration XY-ACM of
Burma Airways
crashed
shortly after
take-off
on a scheduled
passenger flight
.
Twenty-eight
people
on board
were
killed
and only 3 survived.
On
17
February 2012
,
Air KBZ
ATR-72-500, XY-AIT overran the runway at Thandwe Airport but no
injuries
reported.