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Article snippet: YANGON, Myanmar — Searchers found bodies and debris on Thursday from a military transport plane that disappeared with 122 people on board shortly after taking off Wednesday afternoon from an air base in the southern part of Myanmar, military officials said. The plane was carrying relatives of Myanmar soldiers, including children, as well as 14 crew members, and there was no word yet on whether there were any survivors. The plane was found in the Andaman Sea about 40 miles from Myeik Air Base on Thursday morning. The bodies of 10 people have been found, military officials said. The navy and air force had mobilized ships and planes to search for the aircraft in the area near the base, about 350 miles south of the country’s commercial capital, Yangon, said the office of Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing in a statement. The plane, a Chinese-made Y-8, was en route from the base to Yangon when it disappeared. The weather in the area was bad, residents said, with pounding rain typical of the monsoon season that is now enveloping Myanmar. The death toll from the crash is very likely to be the worst of any air disaster in Myanmar, a country that has a spotty air safety record. Before Wednesday, Myanmar had had 17 air crashes since 1988, most of them involving small passenger craft, according to The Daily Eleven, a privately owned newspaper. Last year, a Beechcraft trainer plane for the air force crashed near the capital, Naypyidaw, killing five people. In the 17 crashes, 105 pe... Link to the full article to read more