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Several wounded in Thai jet crash | |
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Several passengers have been injured after a Thai domestic airliner skidded off the runway and hit a control tower on a popular tourist island. | |
The Bangkok Airways flight with about 70 people on board crashed during landing on Koh Samui, reports said. | |
A company official told reporters that all passengers were evacuated, but said an unspecified number were wounded. | |
The plane was arriving from the western Thai town of Krabi, which is also a popular tourist destination. | The plane was arriving from the western Thai town of Krabi, which is also a popular tourist destination. |
"The plane just pinched the control tower but there was no fire," Sakchai Jorpalit, district chief of the Thai tourist island, told the French news agency AFP. | |
He said most of the wounded were tourists, adding that some were hospitalised with non-life threatening injuries. | |
An airport official told the Associated Press that it was raining heavily when the plane landed around 1400 local time (0800 GMT). | |
The resort island of Koh Samui lies some 300 miles (480km) south of Bangkok. |