55 foreigners among dead in Thai air crash: airline official

BANGKOK: A total of 55 foreigners were among 88 killed when a Thai jet carrying 130 passengers and crew crashed on the resort island of Phuket, an airline official said on Monday.   

"The latest death toll, which I got at 4am (2100 Sunday GMT) Monday morning, is 88 dead," said Udom Tantiprasongchai, president of budget carrier One-Two-Go, which operated the doomed plane.   

"Of these, there are 55 foreigners. Forty-two people survived," he said.