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Thai Jet's Black Box Recovered
PHUKET, Thailand - Authorities on Monday found the two flight data recorders from a plane that crashed in stormy weather on the resort island of Phuket, killing 90 people, including 54 foreign tourists.
Authorities said it was too early to say what caused Sunday’s crash. Thailand's Transport Minister said the black boxes would be sent to the United States for analysis.
At least four Americans were among the dead and one survived the crash, according to a U.S. Embassy spokesman in Bangkok who spoke on condition of anonymity citing protocol.
Passengers from France, Sweden, Iran and Australia also were killed, as were the plane’s Indonesian pilot and Thai co-pilot, according to the airline’s list of dead passengers.
The president of Orient-Thai Airlines, which owns budget One-Two-Go Airlines, said wind shear — the rapid change in wind speed which can impact takeoffs and landings — was a possible cause of the accident.
The One-Two-Go Airlines flight was carrying 123 passengers and seven crew members from the capital Bangkok to Phuket when the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 skidded off the runway in driving wind and rain. It then ran through a low retaining wall and split in two.