BANGKOK, Thailand - More than 90 percent of the 123 passengers and an unknown number of crew were killed on Sunday when a Thai airliner crashed on the Thai resort island of Phuket, Deputy Governor Vorapot Rajsima said.
"The casualties should be higher than 90 percent. I'm at the airport and the plane is still smoking," he told Channel 9 television.
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A really immature poster would find the location names to be amusing!!
Maj. Gen. Deecha Butnamphet, police chief in Phuket, said on local television station TITV that "we believe that there are many people who are dead. We are taking the dead and injured out from the scene.
"The airplane is completely destroyed and inflamed," he said.
The plane was was traveling from Bangkok to Phuket, a popular resort area for tourists.
Earlier, Angsuwan had told TITV that there was heavy rain when flight OG269 attempted to make a landing.
"The visibility was poor as the pilot attempted to land. He decided to make a go-around but the plane lost balance and crashed. It was torn into two parts," he said.
I visited Phuket back in 1996 when I was in the Navy. The whore to tourist/sailor ratio was literally about 3:1. You'd walk past outdoor bars that would be empty in the early afternoon, except for five or six prostitutes looking to nail you for $10. Solid place to visit. Basically Disneyland for men.
