**At least one person has been killed and several injured when a Thai passenger plane skidded off the runway on a popular tourist island, reports say.**The Bangkok Airways flight carrying 70 people crashed while landing on Koh Samui amid reports of heavy rain.
The pilot of the plane was said to have been killed, as the plane hit an unmanned control tower after skidding.
The plane had taken off from the southern Thai town of Krabi, another resort popular with tourists.
“The plane just pinched the control tower but there was no fire,” Sakchai Jorpalit, district chief of the Thai tourist island, told the French news agency AFP.
He said most of the wounded were tourists, adding that some were hospitalised with non life-threatening injuries.
Local reports said some of the injured suffered broken legs.
The crash happened at around 1400 local time (0800 GMT).
The resort island of Koh Samui lies some 300 miles (480km) south of Bangkok.
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