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16 October 2013

Lao airlines flight QV-301 , ATR-72-600 registration RDPL-34233 from Vientiane to Pakse Laos with 44 passengers and 5 crew members it was approaching Pakse airport under bad weather it was passing a typhoon when the airplane crashed into the Mekong river.All 49 people inside airplane killed

Airplane impacted river around 9km from airport and sank very fast killing everybody on board

A ground eyewitness said that he saw airplane to hit from a strong wind that made airplane's nose to rise and after to loosing altitude and impacting the water near a small island inside river Makong

On 22 October 2013 the French BEA in their weekly bulletin reported that airplane was approaching runway 15 when the crew went around , turned right and crashed inside river killing all 49 people on board

RDPL-34233

First Flight:06-03-2013

Age:0.7 years

Pakse airport