Three Irish women lucky to escape fatal Thai plane crash

THREE Irish women last night told how they climbed through mangled wreckage suffering only cuts and bruises after the plane they were on crashed in Thailand.

The friends, who had been travelling around south-east Asia, were among 68 passengers, two cabin crew and two pilots on board as the jet slid on landing and smashed into a disused control tower.

The pilot of the Bangkok Airways ATR72 flight died in the accident on a rain-soaked runway in the holiday resort of Koh Samui.