Most passengers of the Liner crashed on Phuket died

When the passenger aircraft crash in the Thai city of Phuket, almost all of the 123 passengers were on board, the British television channel Sky News reports citing local media. The liner crashed during landing.

The landing plane slipped from the runway, crashed into the trees and caught fire, falling apart into two parts.

According to local authorities, apparently died 90%, or at least 100 people. At the time of the disaster, there were 128 people on board the aircraft.

The mayor of Phuket Anchali Vanich Tybutra said that more than 50 bodies have already taken out of a spanned aircraft. According to her, 20 passengers are hospitalized. According to the local radio station, seven foreign citizens delivered to the clinics.

It is known that the airliner belongs to the Air Thai Airways airline. He flew from Bangkok OG 269. According to the agency, landing took place in adverse weather conditions - heavy rain poured over the runway.

At the moment, fire brigades put out the sunbathing aircraft. Rescuers pull out the bodies of those who died from a steaming fuselage of the aircraft.

The representative of the civil aviation department of Thailand Chisak Angkawan said that there could be bad weather conditions as a probable cause of the accident. "Perhaps the pilot did not see the runway," he said. “However, we will not recognize the (real) reasons for the disaster until the records of“ black boxes, ”the specialist emphasized.

The Russian Union of the Turin industry (RST) believe that the presence of Russian tourists aboard a broken aircraft is unlikely.

“In the summer, which is still in Thailand, 99% of Russian tourists get to the island of Phuket through Bangkok using internal airlines. About 1840-1850 tourists fly out in Thailand from Russia per week, of which about 30% sends about 30% to Phuket. Therefore, theoretically Russians could be on this plane,” said the press secretary Irina Tyurina on Sunday “Interfacs” .

At the same time, she noted that "such a probability is very small." “The fact is that the Russians are trying to use Thai Airlines for this flight, and not the company that belonged to the crashed plane. Therefore, we really hope that none of the Russians were there,” Tyurina turned.