Air crash claims five

NAYPYIDAW: All  five crew died when a Myanmar air force plane crashed in the capital  Naypyidaw on Wednesday, bursting into flames soon after take off and  smashing into a nearby field, the military said. One man was pulled  alive from the blazing wreckage and taken to hospital but later died of  injuries, according to a rare news statement on the official Myanmar  army Facebook page. “Naypyidaw airport authorities, the fire brigade,  air force personnel and local residents all worked together to  extinguish the fire,” the statement said, adding the cause of the crash  was under investigation. Hundreds of people gathered in the area as  officials sifted through the smouldering wreckage of the propeller  plane, according to an AFP reporter at the scene earlier Wednesday.