In pictures: Thai air crash

A Thai budget airliner has crashed on landing in the southern resort of Phuket, killing at least 88 people on board.

Flight OG 269, operated by One-Two-Go, caught fire as it skidded off the runway.

The McDonnell Douglas plane was carrying 123 passengers, many of them foreigners, and seven crew.

The plane, arriving from the Thai capital Bangkok, was trying to land in heavy rain and fierce winds.

Both the pilot and the co-pilot are believed to have died in the accident.

A total of about 40 people managed to escape the burning wreckage.

Some passengers pushed out windows and exits to escape from the plane.

The survivors, many of them foreign tourists, are being treated in Phuket's hospitals.

Relatives of the passengers have begun arriving in Phuket.

Some are facing the grim task of identifying friends or family in a makeshift morgue.

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