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The first US military aid flight has landed in Myanmar on Monday, but relief supplies continued to just dribble into the reclusive state nine days after a devastating cyclone.

A C-130 military transport plane left Thailand's Vietnam War-era U-Tapao airbase carrying 12,700 kg of water, mosquito nets and blankets. US aid officials said they hope it will the first of many US flights to the army-ruled former Burma.

Greeting the plane at Yangon airport was Navy commander-in-chief Soe Thein, who promised to deliver the supplies "as soon as possible" to the cyclone-hit region, a US embassy official in Yangon said.

"This is Burma's hour of need and the need is urgent," US Agency for International Development administrator Henrietta Fore said before boarding the plane with a Thai-US delegation for the short flight to the cyclone-hit city of Yangon.

Admiral Timothy Keating, head of the US Pacific Command, is also on the plane, to try to meet with Myanmar's generals to urge them to allow a "long, continuous train of flights" that could carry up to 90,000kg of relief goods a day.

"We're limited only by the permission from the authorities in Burma," Keating said at the Thai air base.

Agencies report that deliveries to more than a million increasingly desperate cyclone victims have been minimal.

Reuters

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