A Lao Airlines plane crashed today Wednesday
October 16th killing all 44 passengers and five crew
members on board. The twin-engine turbo plane
was on a domestic flight from the capital Vientiane
to the airport in the Champasak province in the
Southern Asian country when it plunged into the
river as it tried to land at Pakse International Airport.
Passengers from 11 different countries were in the
plane including three South Koreans, seven French,
one American, one Chinese, one Taiwanese, one
Canadian, five Australians and two Vietnamese.
State-owned Lao Airlines issued a statement
saying the small plane ran into "extreme bad
weather conditions" and crashed at 4:00pm (local
time).
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