Pilot dead,10 hurt after Thai jet skids off runway

A domestic airliner skidded off a runway and crashed into the air traffic control tower after landing Tue.

A plane skidded off the runway and crashed into an air traffic control tower after landing on the resort island of Samui on Tuesday,killing the pilot,an official said.

About 10 people were hospitalised with minor injuries after the Bangkok Airways flight landed in rainy weather and hit the tower,said Kanikka Kemawutanond,director-general of the Department of Civil Aviation.

She said the ATR72 twin-turboprop had 68 passengers,two pilots and two crew members on board and was flying from Krabi,another popular resort area in southern Thailand.

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“The plane was damaged,” said a Samui airport official contacted by telephone. “The weather was bad and it was raining when the plane skidded off.”

He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press.

Samui,located 298 miles (480 kilometers) south of Bangkok,is an island in the Gulf of Thailand popular with foreign tourists.

Kanikka said the traffic control tower that was hit had not been in use. She said the Samui airport runway was closed after the accident and at least one Thai Airways flight was cancelled.

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