Prince George Woman Among Thailand Plane Crash Survivors

By 250 News

     Prince George, B.C.  -  A 23 year old Prince George woman walked away from a weekend plane crash in Thailand  which claimed the lives of at least 88 others and left  scores more injured.

(At left, rescue worker at crash scene, photo courtesy Xinhua News, China)

23 year old Mildred Furlong  of Prince George  was a passenger on board  a budget airliner that  crashed in Phuket .  The plane broke up and burst into  flames.

Furlong was able to escape through a window of the burning aircraft and did not suffer serious injury.

(Assosicated Press photo at right  of crash scene in Phuket Thailand)

"The plane looks as though it veered off the runway into the side of a hill," said Leslie Quahe, a Singaporean pastor who arrived at the scene about an hour after the crash.

"I was coming down the hill and saw smoke coming from the plane. It had broken into several parts," Quahe told Reuters.

Officials said the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 had broken in two on impact on landing on the Andaman Sea paradise isle.  The tail section of the One-Two-Go flight lay on the runway and the rest was among the trees  which line that runway.

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