Vientiane, Oct 16 (IANS) A Lao Airlines plane carrying 40 passengers crashed into the Mekong river at around 4 p.m. local time during a flight from Laos’s capital Vientiane to Champassak in the country’s south.
No casualty figures were available yet, Xinhua reported.
A source, who works in aeronautical services, said on condition of anonymity that flight number QV301, an ART twin-turbo aircraft, was carrying 40 passengers when it crashed.
The plane took off from Vientiane at 2:50 p.m. and was due to arrive at 4 p.m. when it crashed into the Mekong shortly before attempting a landing in bad weather.