Bangkok Airways jet skidded

Bangkok Airways jet skidded, BANGKOK: A pilot was killed and seven passengers hospitalised Tuesday when a Bangkok Airways jet skidded and hit an old control tower as it landed on Thailand’s resort island of Ko Samui, the airline said.

Thailand’s public health ministry said 42 people were injured in the crash.

Among the injured, Bangkok Airways’ president said four passengers — one Italian, two British and one Swiss — were seriously injured.

“The flight landed on the south runway and skidded off on the left side before it hit an abandoned air control tower. The aircraft was damaged,” Puttipong Prasattong Osot told reporters.

“The captain was killed and the co-pilot was evacuated from the aircraft and is now hospitalised,” he said.

Another six passengers had also been taken to hospital, with broken legs among the injuries, but everyone on board had been safely evacuated, he said.

“There are four passengers seriously wounded, one Italian, two British, one Swiss,” he added.

Puttipong named the pilot as Captain Chatchai Pansuwan and said he had worked with Bangkok Airways for 19 years, and had flown that model of aircraft for the past 14 years.

Aviation officials were en route to Samui airport to investigate the cause of the incident, he said.

There were 68 passengers aboard the 70-seater ATR-72, Puttipong said, which was flying from the southwestern tourist town Krabi, on the Andaman coast, to Ko Samui in the Gulf of Thailand.

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3.2 Patch Notes

3.2 Patch Notes, WoW  has multiple independent sources confirming the release of Patch 3.2 tomorrow (Tuesday August 4th in the US) and we’re happy to pass that information along to you.(3.2 Patch Notes)

There are no patch notes available yet; however, they will no doubt be made available within the next few hours. But really, the patch notes are not going to deviate a terrible amount from the PTR patch notes, so this evening is a good time to familiarize yourself with everything.

The patch will also bring with it some rather significant extended maintenance as well.

WoW.com has compiled everything we’ve written into a very large and complete patch guide, WoW.’s Guide To Patch 3.2.

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Cash For Clunkers Car List

Cash For Clunkers Car List, We have been receiving some emails about “which cars fall under the nations Cash for Clunkers program“: a program that has recently just been extended due to great performance. This program is rumored to run through the weekend to help buyers get into more newer and fuel efficient vehicles.

The AP that the House has voted to rush an additional “$2 billion into the popular but financially strapped “cash for clunkers” car program.”

Some luxury cars that fall under this list are cars like the 1992 BMW 8 Series,1997 BMW 7 Series, the 1994 Audi V8, 2000 Audi A6 (V6 model non turbo), 2000 Land Rover Range Rover, 1997 Mercedes-Benz S-Class, and the 1994 Porsche 968.

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Sri Lankan LTTE Angry With China and India

New York: More than two months after the Tamil Tigers were decimated, Sri Lankan Tamils living abroad remain bitter about the support China and India extended to Colombo during the war.

The Tamil Diaspora is livid that Beijing provided tonnes of arms and ammunition to Sri Lankan security forces battling the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

The anger against India is rooted mainly in New Delhi’s diplomatic backing to Colombo when it came under Western fire over human rights abuses.

On Monday, Sri Lankan Tamils staged a rally outside the Chinese mission to the UN to protest “China’s assistance to Sri Lanka towards ethnic cleansing and genocide of Tamils”.

Around 50 Tamil Americans from around the East Coast came out with placards that read: “China, Stop helping Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Cleansing of Tamils.”

The group chanted slogans like “China don’t fund Sri Lanka’s war crimes.”

The campaigners claim that Colombo’s attacks on Tamil areas were facilitated by Chinese weapons. Beijing supports abuses against the Tamils through economic and military assistance to Sri Lanka, they said.

The rally was organised by Tamils Against Genocide (TAG), a NGO based in Maryland that is protesting against alleged atrocities committed by Sri Lanka.

A spokesman for TAG expressed dismay at New Delhi’s support for Sri Lanka’s military campaign that ended in the killing of LTTE founder leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and his top lieutenants in May.

“India has done an extreme form of treachery to the Tamils,” the spokesman said. “We need India to do justice to the Tamils.”

In May, India supported a resolution passed by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva which commended the Sri Lankan government on its defeat of the Tamil Tigers and its efforts to address the needs of the displaced.

The resolution was slammed for ignoring the tactics used by the Sri Lankan army that led to massive human rights violations.

Brazil, Cuba, India and Pakistan blocking a stronger resolution that called for accountability.

The Tamil separatist campaign claimed over thousands of lives since July 1983. The end of the war was followed by accusations of human rights violations against the Sri Lankan authorities.

Human rights groups are also calling for the release of 280,000 displaced Tamil civilians living in relief centres which critics say are no better than “detention camps”.

TAG said it supports the goal of an “independent state” for Tamils through peaceful means and diplomacy.

“The violent form of struggle is dead in the new world order,” said its spokesperson, who asked not to be named because of the sensitive nature of the matter.

“We want an economic boycott from the one million strong Tamil Diaspora,” he added. “The struggle will continue in one form or the other.

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