[Denver]

My sympathies to anyone even remotely involved with the crash yesterday.

I am not willing to speculate on what happened, I'm no aviation expert, pilot or crash investigator, I am sure the details will all come out in the end.

My own personal observations from yesterday:

I was at home in Kamala, when it went dark in the early afternoon, that was rain. No TV sat signal etc. Then my front slammed shut and the balcony doors started rattling, that was the wind. It lasted for about 15 minutes. Torrential, heavy rain and strong gusts of wind. I am guessing this was about the time this pilot was flying around and thinking of trying to put his aircraft on the ground. That was some bad weather!

From television here I saw several fire appliances, ambulances, cranes etc next to the plane. The reactions of the airport emergency teams appeared to be spot on but very little they could do I guess. Small mercy I know, but at least the injured got to a hospital quickly.

Television also reports that two or three aircraft landed before this one and had a really hard time of it with the wind squalls off the sea. hard landings etc due to some pretty bad weather here over the last couple of days.

I went out last night for food, shopping etc and chatted with several Thais and it seemed to have hit them hard as well. All watching TV's in supermarkets or listening to updates on the radio. I'm sure we will hear more today. The weather today, again, is heavy rain, dark storm clouds but the wind has dropped off a little.

Again, just my observations and again, sympathies to anyone out there who may have known someone on the flight.