Laos Plane Crash

• US Offers Condolences After Laos Plane Crash

  The United States offered its condolences on Sunday after a Lao military plane crash that killed five senior officials on board, including the defense minister of the secretive communist nation.

• Lao Plane Carrying Defence Chief Crashes: Thai Official

  A Lao military plane carrying top officials including the defence minister crashed on Saturday in the north of the communist country, a Thai official said, without giving details of any casualties.

• 14 Laos plane crash victims identified: airline

  Lao Airlines on Saturday said it had identified almost half of the 30 bodies so far recovered after a plane carrying dozens of people, many of them foreign travellers, plunged into the Mekong River.

• Plane crashes into Mekong river in Laos, 49 people killed

  A Laos Airlines flight crashed Wednesday in the Southeast Asian nation, apparently killing all 49 people aboard, including passengers from 11 countries, the Lao government said.

• Plane crashes in Laos, 39 people killed: Thai TV

  An aircraft crashed into the Mekong river in Laos on Wednesday and 39 people were killed, media reported.