Plane crashes into swamp in Thailand with all nine on board believed dead

A rescue team work at a site of a small aircraft crash in Chachoengsao province, Thailand (Chachoengsao Public Relations Department/AP)

A small passenger plane on a domestic flight in Thailand crashed on Thursday afternoon shortly after taking off from the country’s main airport in Bangkok, the country’s civil aviation authority has announced.

It appeared that all nine people on board had been killed.