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THAILAND: Accident investigators say bad weather may have caused Phuket plane crash

A holidaymaker from Northern Ireland is now known to have been killed in the plane crash on the Thai holiday island of Phuket and it is feared several more Britons are among the eighty-nine dead, but not yet identified. Forty-two of the 130 passengers and crew on board survived the crash. Three of those being treated in hospital are Britons and one is in a critical condition. Accident investigators have recovered the flight's two data recorders, and are focusing on the weather as the possible cause. The Thai budget One-Two-Go Airlines flight was trying to land during a fierce monsoon storm. At the end of its flight from Bangkok, the pilot reportedly tried to abort his landing at Phuket because he couldn't see the runway. But the plane skidded along the ground, hit an embankment, and burst into flames.

ITN Source | September 17, 2007Watch more videos from ITN Source

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