Wind shear may have caused plane crash: Airline official

Investigators are today searching through charred remains of a plane that crashed and killed 90 people – mostly foreigners – on Thailand’s resort island of Phuket, while an airline official said wind shear may have doomed the flight.

The budget One-Two-Go Airlines flight was carrying 123 passengers and seven crew from Bangkok to Phuket when it skidded off a runway yesterday while landing in driving wind and rain, catching fire and engulfing some passengers in flames as others kicked out windows to escape.