Black boxes found at plane crash site

Thai officials said today they have found the two black boxes from a plane full of tourists that crashed in Phuket killing 88 people, reportedly including up to four Irish nationals.

The budget One-Two-Go Airlines flight was carrying 123 passengers and seven crew members yesterday from the capital Bangkok to Phuket when it skidded off the runway in wind and rain, officials said. It then ran through a low retaining wall and split in two.

Thai transport minister Theera Haocharoen said the black boxes had been recovered from the charred and twisted wreckage but that it was too early to say what caused the crash.

“We are still unable to say the cause of accident,” Theera said.

“The officials have found the black boxes and will send them for analysis to the United States.

Hopefully, we will learn in a few weeks the cause of accident.”