Irish passengers recall terror of Thai plane crash

A YOUNG Irish woman has described how she and her friends were lucky to escape serious harm when freak weather conditions caused a Thai plane to crash land, injuring passengers and killing the pilot.

The simple 35-minute plane journey turned into a nightmare for Aoife Creamer, 25, her sister Orlagh, 20, both from Rush, and Lesley Dowdall, 23, from Swords, Dublin.

Ms Creamer recalled how a shock storm turned their arrival at an exotic island resort into a moment of terror in which they fled from the crashed aircraft.