BANGKOK, Thailand - A passenger plane filled with foreign tourists crashed Sunday as it tried to land in heavy rain on the island of Phuket, splitting in two and bursting into flames, officials said. At least 74 people were killed.
The budget One-Two-Go Airlines domestic flight OG269 was carrying 123 passengers and seven crew members to Phuket - one of Thailand's leading tourist destinations - from the capital, Bangkok.
Survivors described their escape from the airplane's windows as fires and smoke consumed the plane.
"I saw passengers engulfed in fire as I stepped over them on way out of the plane," Parinwit Chusaeng, a survivor who suffered minor burns, told …
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