A Lao Airlines plane crashed today Wednesday October 16th killing all 44
passengers and five crew members on board. The twin-engine turbo plane
was on a domestic flight from the capital
Vientiane to the airport in the Champasak province in the Southern Asian
country when it plunged into the river as it tried to land at Pakse
International Airport. Passengers from 11 different countries were in
the plane including three South Koreans,
seven French, one American, one Chinese, one Taiwanese, one Canadian,
five Australians
and two Vietnamese.
State-owned Lao Airlines issued a statement saying
the small plane ran into "extreme bad weather conditions" and crashed at
4:00pm (local time).
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| Photo:
Locals in Pakse watch as debris from the crashed Lao Airlines twin engine plane washes ashore. |
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