One dead, seven hurt as Thai plane slides off runway

Tue Aug 4, 2009 4:46am EDT

BANGKOK Aug 4 (Reuters) - One person was killed and seven injured when a commercial plane slid off a runway into a disused control tower on the Thai tourist island of Koh Samui on Tuesday, police said.

The Bangkok Airways plane flying from the southern Thai resort of Krabi left the runway while landing in heavy rain.

"It hit an unmanned control tower," the island's police chief, Colonal Saharat Saksilpachai, told Reuters. "It's possible the dead person might be the pilot." (Reporting by Panarat Thepgumpanat; Writing by Martin Petty; Editing by Alan Raybould)




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