17
September 2007 – The Philippine Embassy in
Bangkok
reported to the Department that there are no Filipinos among the fatalities
and casualties in the One Two Go airline plane that crash landed in Phuket
yesterday afternoon, according to the passenger manifest released by the
airline and published in today’s The
Nation on-line edition.
The
budget airline was carrying 123 passengers, two pilots and five attendants
from
Bangkok
.
It landed in heavy rain and strong wind and veered off the runway,
before hitting an earth embankment, breaking into two and bursting into
flames.
Eighty-seven
people were killed and 43 were injured.
There were 78 foreign nationals on board.
They were tourists from
Australia
,
Austria
,
Britain
,
Iran
,
Ireland
,
Italy
,
Sweden
, and the
Netherlands
.
END