On 16 October 2013, a Lao Airlines flight from Vientiane hit turbulence as it prepared to land at Paske International Airport. The plane crashed into the Mekong River.
All 49 people on board the aircraft were killed, including six Australians.
The crash was the country’s worst air disaster on record.
Due to the loss of Australian lives, this event has been included in this dataset.
ABC News 2013, ‘Laos plane crash: six Australians, including Rhodes family and aid worker Michael Creighton, among dead’, 17 October 2013, website viewed 22 October 2013.
ABC Radio Australia 2013, 'Laos air crash: 27 bodies found in Mekong River', 19 October 2013, website viewed 25 October 2013.
The Australian 2013, ‘Laos in mourning for air crash victims’, 22 October 2013, website viewed 23 October 2013.
