Image copyright Ye Aung Thu Image caption So far, the bodies of mainly women and children have been found 
 
 The Burmese army says debris and bodies have been found after a military plane went missing with 122 people on board. 
 
 Dispersed wreckage was found in the Andaman Sea, the military said in a statement on its Facebook page. 
 
 The aircraft, a Y-8 transporter made in China, was carrying 14 crew. Most of the passengers were military personnel and family members, including children. 
 
 The plane was flying from Myeik to Yangon and the debris was found in the sea off the coastal town of Dawei. 
 
 Communication with the flight was lost on Wednesday half an hour into the short routine trip. 
 
 According to the military, by mid-afternoon on Thursday search teams had recovered 29 bodies - 20 women, eight children and one man. 
 
 A wheel, several life jackets and some luggage were found earlier. 
 
 Should everyone on board have died in the crash, the death toll would make it among the country's worst aviation disasters, says the BBC's Myanmar correspondent Jonah Fisher. 
 
 The reason for the crash remains unclear. There has so far been no report of a mayday call and the dispersed nature of the wreckage suggests it could have broken up in mid air. 
 
 Although it is monsoon season in Myanmar, there were no reports of bad weather at that time. 
 
 The plane was purchased from China in March last year and had logged 809 flying hours, according to the military. 
 
 Myanmar has seen a number of aircraft incidents in recent years. 
 
 In February 2016, the five-member crew of an air force plane died when the aircraft crashed in the capital of Nay Pyi Taw. A few months later, three officers were killed when a military helicopter crashed in central Myanmar. 
 
 An Air Bagan commercial aircraft made an emergency landing in 2012 and burst into flames, killing two people. ||||| YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A navy ship found bodies and aircraft parts in the seas off Myanmar while searching Thursday morning for a military transport plane carrying 120 people, a spokesman said. 
 
 The Chinese-made Y-8 turboprop aircraft disappeared Wednesday afternoon about a half-hour after leaving Myeik, also known as Mergui, for Yangon on a route that would have taken it over the Andaman Sea. It was raining, but not heavily, at the time. 
 
 Nine naval ships, five army aircraft and three helicopters were searching for the plane Thursday morning, a military spokesman said. 
 
 Gen. Myat Min Oo said the ship found two life jackets, three bodies and a tire that was part of an aircraft wheel. The bodies were of a man, a woman and a child. The wreckage was found in the sea west of the town of Laung Lone. 
 
 The plane carried 106 passengers — mostly families of military personnel — and 14 crew members. Fifteen of the passengers were children. It is not unusual for such flights to carry civilians to offset transportation costs for military families stationed in the somewhat remote south. 
 
 An announcement posted on the Facebook page of the commander of the military, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, said contact was lost when the plane was believed to be about 32 kilometers (20 miles) to the west of Dawei, formerly known as Tavoy. 
 
 The military said Myanmar received the Y-8 plane in March last year, and since then it had logged 809 flying hours. 
 
 The area is about 440 miles (700 kilometers) north of the last primary radar contact with Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished on a flight from Malaysia to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board. That plane is believed to have flown far off course and crashed into a remote area of the southern Indian Ocean.
– A navy ship found bodies and aircraft parts in the seas off Myanmar while searching Thursday morning for a military transport plane carrying 120 people, a spokesman says. The Chinese-made Y-8 turboprop aircraft disappeared Wednesday afternoon about a half-hour after leaving Myeik, also known as Mergui, for Yangon on a route that would have taken it over the Andaman Sea, the AP reports. It was raining, but not heavily, at the time. Nine naval ships, five army aircraft, and three helicopters were searching for the plane Thursday morning, a military spokesman says. Gen. Myat Min Oo says the ship found two life jackets, three bodies, and a tire that was part of an aircraft wheel. The bodies were of a man, a woman, and a child. The plane carried 106 passengers—mostly families of military personnel—and 14 crew members. Fifteen of the passengers were children. It is not unusual for such flights to carry civilians to offset transportation costs for military families stationed in the country's remote south. The military says Myanmar received the Y-8 plane in March of last year, and since then it had logged 809 flying hours. The BBC reports there was no mayday call from the aircraft and while the cause of what is believed to be one of the deadliest plane crashes in Myanmar's history is still unclear, the dispersed debris suggests the plane broke up in mid-air.