The plane left
the southern coastal town of Myeik in the early afternoon and
was bound for Myanmar's largest city of Yangon, but it lost
contact about 20 miles (32 km) west of the town of Dawei and has
been declared missing, the military said.
A search had been launched, it said.
(Reporting by Antoni Slodkowski and Yimou Lee and Wa Lone;
Editing by Robert Birsel)
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