By SOPHENG CHEANG,
Associated Press Writer
KAMPOT, Cambodia - A passenger plane that disappeared in southern Cambodia likely crashed during a storm, and there is little hope of finding survivors among the 22 people who were on board, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday.
Some 1,000 soldiers and police were combing rough terrain in Kampot province for the PMT Air plane, a Russian-made An-24 that was flying between two of the country‘s most popular tourist destinations when it disappeared Monday.
He said he asked U.S. Ambassador Joseph Mussomeli on Monday for the U.S. government "to redirect its satellites to help search" for the plane.
"But current weather conditions in the search area are hampering our efforts," Daigle said in an e-mail.
On Tuesday, Khov Khun Huor, Kampot province‘s deputy governor, said the rescuers have split into two groups in looking for the aircraft. One group was searching near Kamchay Mountain, while a second team focused on the area between Kampot and Sihanoukville, where an explosion was also reportedly heard Monday.
Some 1,000 soldiers and police were combing rough terrain in Kampot province for the PMT Air plane, a Russian-made An-24 that was flying between two of the country‘s most popular tourist destinations when it disappeared Monday.
He said he asked U.S. Ambassador Joseph Mussomeli on Monday for the U.S. government "to redirect its satellites to help search" for the plane.
"But current weather conditions in the search area are hampering our efforts," Daigle said in an e-mail.
On Tuesday, Khov Khun Huor, Kampot province‘s deputy governor, said the rescuers have split into two groups in looking for the aircraft. One group was searching near Kamchay Mountain, while a second team focused on the area between Kampot and Sihanoukville, where an explosion was also reportedly heard Monday.
4 comments:
It should be HUN SEN himself in that plane, then Cambodian will free from dictatorship.
I seems like Hun Sen knows everything, even plane crash. How does he know it was the storm and not the mechanical failure of the plane? If we have high tech weather forecast maybe pilots in srok khmer can avoid the storm by flying around it.
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7:43pm, If you want to fly around big storme you end up in Japan!
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