Not again! Lao Airlines plane crashes into river, killing 49

A Lao Airlines plane crashed today Wednesday October
16th killing all 44 passengers and five crew members on
board. The twin-engine turbo plane was on a domestic
flight from the capital Vientiane to the airport in the
Champasak province in the Southern Asian country when it
plunged into the river as it tried to land at Pakse
International Airport. Passengers from 11 different
countries were in the plane including three South Koreans,
seven French, one American, one Chinese, one Taiwanese,
one Canadian, five Australians and two Vietnamese.
State-owned Lao Airlines issued a statement saying the
small plane ran into "extreme bad weather conditions" and
crashed at 4:00pm (local time).