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Note: a (AP) - Investigators are trying to determine why a Burmese airliner taking tourists to an ancient city caught fire and crashed, killing all 49 people aboard, including 14 Americans. The twin-turboprop plane "caught fire in midair" Sunday and slammed to earth near a village about 20 miles southeast of Pagan, the official News Agency of Burma said. There were no survivors, it reported. It was the second fatal crash of a Burma Airways Friendship Fokker 27 plane in less than four months and the worst air disaster in this impoverished southeast Asian nation since 1978. "As soon as news of the plane crash was received, responsible authorities of the airways corporation and members of an investigating team left for the crash site by a special plane," the state radio said Sunday. An official passenger list said 36 of the victims were foreigners - 14 Americans, seven Swiss, five Britons, four Australians, three West Germans, two French and one Thai. Nine Burmese passengers and four crew members also died. The victims included the parents of an administrative attache at the Australian Embassy in Rangoon, sources said. Several of the 14 Americans killed in the crash were part of a tour arranged by a, San Francisco travel agent, who also was among the victims, relatives said. Edith Dalle-Feste of Kentfield, Calif., had been a travel agent for more than 30 years before starting her own agency, Cosmopolitan Travel, about 20 years ago. One of the firm's employees, Julie Ann Butler, 45, of Calistoga, Calif., was among the victims. The plane was on a two-hour, (Continued On Page 20)
Crash Bereaves Local Couple. The daughter and son-in- law of a Greenwood Forest couple were among the 49 people killed in the crash of a Burma Airways plane Sunday. Jack and Reba Sybert, of New Orleans, La., perished along 12 other Americans and 25 foreigners on the twin turboprop Fokker Friendship 27, said Reba Sybert's father, Raymond McAnally. "We got a call from Washington, (D.C.) about 5:30 p.m. Sunday telling us that our daughter and son-in-law were among the casualties. That was the first we'd heard about the crash," McAnally told the Kerrville Daily Times Monday. "They were touring the (Continued On Page 20)
Clipped from The Kerrville Times, 12 Oct 1987, Mon, Page 1
Note: 14 Americans, 35 Others Die In Burma Crash By SEIN WIN Associated Press Writer RANGOON, Burm
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