{"id":397,"date":"2013-10-17T11:10:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T11:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=397"},"modified":"2013-10-17T11:10:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T11:10:21","slug":"plane-crashes-in-laos-49-on-board-believed-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/plane-crashes-in-laos-49-on-board-believed-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane crashes in Laos, 49 on board believed dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Laos-plan-crash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-398\" alt=\"Laos plan crash\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Laos-plan-crash-300x180.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Laos-plan-crash-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Laos-plan-crash.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A plane from Laos\u2019 state-run airline crashed in bad weather in the Southeast Asian nation, apparently killing 49 people from 11 countries, the government said.<br \/>\nThe Lao government said it was dispatching rescuers to the scene of Wednesday\u2019s crash, but the Australian government said it was told no survivors were expected.<br \/>\nThe Ministry of Public Works and Transport, which operates Lao Airlines, said 44 passengers and five crew members were on Flight QV301 from the capital, Vientiane, to Pakse in the country\u2019s south. Earlier reports had 39 passengers.<br \/>\n\u201cUpon preparing to land at Pakse Airport the aircraft ran into extreme bad weather conditions and was reportedly crashed into the Mekong River,\u201d the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/plane-crashes-in-laos-49-on-board-believed-dead\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plane from Laos\u2019 state-run airline crashed in bad weather in the Southeast Asian nation, apparently killing 49 people from 11 countries, the government said. The Lao government said it was dispatching rescuers to the scene of Wednesday\u2019s crash, but the Australian government said it was told no survivors were expected. The Ministry of Public &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}