- Title: CAMBODIA: All 22 passengers and crew killed in plane crash
- Date: 27th June 2007
- Summary: (SOUNDBITE)(Khmer) DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF KOMPOT PROVINCE, KOY KIMHOUR, SAYING: "I only saw the site from the helicopter. Now we have to land there and clear the area"
- Embargoed: 12th July 2007 13:00
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- Location: Cambodia
- Country: Cambodia
- Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes
- Reuters ID: LVA6YVFIMTLD9LM3NJVR4A9TPJLX
- Story Text: Searchers found the wreckage of a plane carrying 22 people near the ridge of a Cambodian mountain on Wednesday (June 27).
A government spokesman said that all 22 passengers and crew were dead; they comprised 13 Korean and three Czech passengers; the Russian captain and five Cambodian crew.
The aircraft vanished from radar screens on Monday (June 25) during a flight from Siem Reap, home of the 800-year-old Angkor Wat temple complex, to the coastal resort of Sihanoukville.
The plane was operated by Phnom Penh-based carrier PMT Air.
The search in densely forested mountains had been hampered by heavy rain.
Air services between Siem Reap and Sihanoukville only reopened in January this year after a prolonged hiatus during Cambodia's civil war. The resumption of the internal route was seen as a sign of the former French colony's accelerating recovery from the destruction wrought by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge during their four years in power from 1975 to 1979.
Cambodia attracted more than 1.7 million tourists last year, most of them drawn to Angkor Wat. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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