TOURIST PLANE CRASHES ON LANDING

A flight to Ko Samui, one of Thailand’s most popular holiday islands, crash-landed today, killing a pilot and trapping many of the 68 passengers. Several hours after the crash, rescue workers were struggling to free some of the passengers, likely to be holiday-makers heading for the isle’s idyllic white sandy beaches. The plane skidded off the runway and crashed into a disused air traffic control tower after landing in rainy conditions this morning. The tower is now part of a fire fighting station. It is thought that around ten people have already been taken to hospital after the Bangkok Airways aircraft struck the building. Ko Samui is located 300 miles (480 km) south of Bangkok in the Gulf of Thailand