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Plane Skids Off Runway in Thailand

A domestic airliner skidded off a runway and crashed into the air traffic control tower after landing on the popular Thai resort island of Samui. ...full story at WSJ

from WSJ on Tue, Aug 04 2009

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17 Sep 07 visit Phuket Air Disaster Flight OG 269  »  YouTube video87 people died after Flight OG 269 crashed on landing in bad weather at the Thai resort of Phuket. The jet, carrying 123 passengers, a number of them foreigners form the US, France, Sweden, Iran and Australia, crashed after hitting the runway heavily in...
04 Aug 09 visit Fatal Bangkok Airways crash on Samui  »  Bangkok Post A Bangkok Airways plane skidded off the runway and crashed at Samui airport, resulting in at least one death and 41 injured.
04 Aug 09 visit Captain of PG flight confirmed dead  »  The Nation Captain of the ill-fated Bangkok Airways is confirmed dead when his aircraft skidded of runway of Samui Airport and plunged into an old air control tower on Tuesday.
04 Aug 09 visit Bangkok Airway jet skids off runway, many injured  »  The Nation Captain of the flight feared dead as the aircraft hit head-on to flight control tower. 41 others reportedly injured.
05 Aug 09 visit Body of dead pilot arrives in Bangkok  »  Bangkok Post The body of the pilot who was killed when a Bangkok Airways plane crashed into an old control tower while landing on Koh Samui on Tuesday arrived in Bangkok on Wednesday morning.
26 Jan 08 visit Plane to Singapore was trying to reach Samui  »  Bangkok Post Singapore (dpa) - An Australian-registered plane that disrupted commercial traffic by causing a shutdown of Singapore's airspace was on a test flight and expected to return to Thailand's Koh Samui island, authorities said on Saturday.

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