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| Laos crash: 44 dead as plane goes down in Mekong River | Laos crash: 44 dead as plane goes down in Mekong River |
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| All 44 people aboard a domestic flight in Laos were killed when the plane crashed in the south of the country, officials in neighbouring Thailand say. | All 44 people aboard a domestic flight in Laos were killed when the plane crashed in the south of the country, officials in neighbouring Thailand say. |
| The Lao Airlines plane came down in the Mekong River. | The Lao Airlines plane came down in the Mekong River. |
| The aircraft crashed in bad weather just before it was due to land at Pakse airport, an airline official quoted by the Bangkok Post said. | The aircraft crashed in bad weather just before it was due to land at Pakse airport, an airline official quoted by the Bangkok Post said. |
| The plane was on a flight from the Lao capital Vientiane when it crashed at about 16:00 local time (09:00 GMT). | The plane was on a flight from the Lao capital Vientiane when it crashed at about 16:00 local time (09:00 GMT). |
| Thai foreign ministry spokesman Sek Wannamethee said there were 39 passengers and five crew aboard the plane, citing information from the Thai Embassy in Vientiane. | |
| The aircraft came down about 8km (5 miles) from Pakse airport, he said. | |
| Thai TV pictures show a plane half-submerged in the river, AFP news agency reports. | |
| The crashed plane was an ATR-72 belonging to the state-owned airline, the agency said. |