Emergency workers stand by the wreckage of the Air Bagan plane.
Two people died when a plane packed with Christmas tourists crash-landed on a road in central Burma yesterday.
A Briton was one of four foreigners among the 11 injured.
The two people killed were an 11-year-old passenger, believed to be a Burmese citizen, and a man riding a motorcycle on the road where the plane came down.
The Air Bagan flight was carrying 63 passengers, including 51 foreigners, and six crew members from the city of Mandalay to Heho airport in Shan State, the gateway to popular tourist destination Inle Lake.
The airline identified the injured tourists as a British national, two Americans and a Korean. It described the incident as an “emergency landing”.
Authorities gave a more dramatic account, saying the pilot mistook the road for a runway due to fog.
State television said the aircraft made a hard landing on a road and then came to a stop in a nearby rice paddy field.
