1.
GV Pan plane flying over the crash site
7 ft

2.
GV of the wrecked textile mill
11 ft

3.
Interior Minister Samak and Police officials
14 ft

4.
SV Officials searching passengers' belongings
17 ft

5.
SV Egyptian Airline officials
19 ft

6.
SV crashed jet engine in the factory ruins
21 ft

7.
Egyptian airline investigators pointing to the engine
23 ft

8.
Close up of the engine
25 ft

9.
GV of the crashed site
27 ft

10.
Investigators checking flight information box (3 shots)
33 ft

11.
GV pan helicopter flying over the wrecked textile mill
37 ft

12.
SV rescue workers digging out bodies from plane wreckage
39 ft

13.
SV body being wrapped up
42 ft

14.
SV cutaway of people looking at crash site
44 ft

15.
SV burnt body being carried away
47 ft

16.
GV pan jet plane flying over the wrecked factory
52 ft



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Background: Investigations are continuing into the cause of an air crash that killed more than fifty people at Bangkok airport on Christmas day.

The air crash occurred as an Egyptian airliner on route from Saudi Arabia to Tokyo, attempted to land in heavy fog during the early hours of Christmas morning.

Eye witnesses have told official investigators that the airliner appeared to approach the runway too low and ploughed into a factory exploding over paddy fields at the end of the tarmac.

Egyptian Airline officials have arrived in Bangkok to assist in the investigations into the cause of the disaster.

The textile factory was completely destroyed by the force of the impact. Thai officials said three factory workers had been confirmed dead and seventeen others were still missing, believed dead. Reuters News Agency reports that the death toll within the factory would have been much higher except that many of the two hundred men on the night shift were taking a break when the plane smashed into the roof.

A spokesman for the factory said a preliminary estimate of the damage could amount to more than five million US dollars.

Passengers aboard the airliner included several Japanese, Malaysians and a group of Thais returning from a pilgrimage to the Moslem holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.