BANGKOK, Thailand - An Orient Thai Airways jet crashed and was engulfed in flames as it attempted to land in heavy rain at the Phuket airport in southern Thailand on Sunday, authorities said.
Maj. Gen. Deecha Butnamphet, police chief in Phuket, said on local television station TITV that "we believe that there are many people who are dead. We are taking the dead and injured out from the scene.
"The airplane is completely destroyed and inflamed," he said.
TITV reported 60 dead, but Chaisak Angsuwan, director general of the Air Transport Authority of Thailand, could not confirm that.
Angsuwan told The Associated Press by telephone he believes "there are …
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