Pilot of doomed Thai flight knew of wind threat
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The Indonesian pilot of a budget airliner that crashed on the Thai resort island of Phuket tried to land despite being warned of windshear threats, a Thai air traffic control official said on Tuesday.
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The co-pilot responded to turbulence with "inappropriate" use of the controls just before flight 587 crashed.
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Until two weeks ago, Smith Thammasaroj was a prophet without honor. As chief of Thailand's meteorological department in 1998, he was accused of scare-mongering when he warned that the country's southwest coast could face a deadly tsunami.
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A Canadian holiday maker spoke to BBC News about his ordeal following the devastating sea surges in Phuket, Thailand.
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A plane crashes while trying to land in bad weather at the Thai island resort of Phuket, an aviation official says.
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The Indonesian pilot of a budget  airliner that crashed on the Thai resort island of Phuket tried  to land despite being warned of windshear threats, a Thai air  traffic control official said on Tuesday.
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BAD weather was the main cause of an accident which killed 26 people aboard an airplane whose spoiler did not work well, Indonesian investigators said today.
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PHUKET, Thailand - Robert Borland found himself helpless on the floor of the jet wreckage, his pants in flames, when a passenger in a yellow shirt helped him out onto the wing. He knows nothing else about the man who probably saved his life.
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Sixty-six people were confirmed dead and 43 were hospital after a budget airliner crashed on the Thai resort island of Phuket in driving rain on Sunday, the island's deputy governor told Channel 9 television.
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Experts have decoded the flight recorders of a Canadian-made airliner that exploded and crashed into a lake in northern China, killing 55 people, but the cause of the accident is still unclear, China&#39;s Xinhua News Agency said.
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A Thai expert said on Monday he tried to warn the government a deadly tsunami might be sweeping toward tourist-packed beaches, but couldn't find anyone to take his calls.
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Indochina Correspondent May Ying Welsh. PHUKET, Thailand : The Thai government will set up an inquiry into why the public was not given early warning of the tsunamis, which smashed into the kingdom&#39;s southern provinces.
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The pilot of a Garuda Indonesia aircraft that crashed at Yogyakarta airport killing 21 people ignored 15 warnings as he descended too rapidly, a transport safety committee report said on Monday.
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Met ireann has issued a severe weather warning and forecasts gusts of up to 100 m.p.h. in exposed parts of the west and south this evening.
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Thailand will set up a panel to find  out why no warnings of the deadly tsunami were issued, which  might have saved thousands of lives, Prime Minister Thaksin  Shinawatra said Saturday.
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A Briton living in Thailand today told how survivors of the sea surges which have wrecked the countryâs southern tourist resorts had to tread over bodies to escape.
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BOSTON - Passengers had a terrifying moment when a cabin door blew open at 500 feet during a Boston-to-Nantucket flight, but the airline said no one was in danger because the cabin wasn't pressurized.   "All of a sudden the wind was whipping through the plane," Calley Cutler, of Salem, N.H., told the Boston Globe...