Britons hailed as heros in Thai plane crash
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Two Britons have been hailed as heros for saving passengers from a plane which crashed in the Thai resort of Phuket by smashing their way out of aircraft, reports said Tuesday.
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PHUKET, Thailand, Sept. 17 -- Stunned by the plane crash, Robert Borland found himself helpless on the floor of the jet with his trousers aflame 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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Emergency services are at the scene after a light aircraft crash in south east Wales.
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More than 90 percent of the 123 passengers and an unknown number of crew were killed on Sunday when a Thai airliner crashed on the Thai resort island of Phuket, Deputy Governor Vorapot Rajsima said.
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hailed as heroes by a British commander five days after an electrical fire on board killed one of their crewmates and left their vessel adrift on the stormy North Atlantic.
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The 50th anniversary of a plane crash that devastated the Manchester United soccer team has occasioned a wave of nostalgia in Britain.
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The prime minister, Tony Blair, flew into the Iraqi capital today and praised the electoral workers of Iraq for their bravery in risking their lives for democracy.
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Volunteers and emergency staff are recognised for their rescue work during the floods across England.
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PANARE, Thailand - Around 50 Thai Air Force planes âbombedâ the largely Muslim southern with paper birds on Sunday as a symbol of peace for the restive region where nearly 500 people have been killed since January.
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All 21 people killed when an Indonesian passenger jet burst into flames after landing earlier this week have been positively identified, including five Australians, a report said Friday.
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The Royal Air Force (RAF) said Sunday it was carrying out probably its biggest peacetime rescue operation in Britain as its helicopters helped evacuate more than 100 people from flood-hit areas.
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PHUKET, Thailand  - Thai rescue workers dragged the last bodies on Monday from the charred wreckage of a budget airliner that crashed while trying to land in a fierce monsoon storm on the resort island of Phuket, killing 89 people.
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Passengers applaud a pilot who landed safely at City of Derry airport after one of the plane's engines shut down.
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Rescuers were praying for &quot;individual miracles&quot; of survival as they combed the beaches and islands of southern Thailand on Wednesday for thousands of missing tourists and locals swept away by tidal waves.
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Royal Marines involved in a daring rescue mission in Afghanistan are hailed for their bravery.
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Leading international figures react to the announcement by the Thai military that they have overthrown Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Knowledge of the ocean and its currents passed down from generation to generation of a group of Thai fishermen known as the Morgan sea gypsies saved an entire village from the Asian tsunami, a newspaper said Saturday.