A spokesman for One-Two-Go Airlines said Flight 269 left Bangkok at 2:30 p.m. local time and was scheduled to land in Phuket at 3:50 p.m. The plane was carrying 123 passengers and seven crew members, he said.
He had no information about casualties.
Phuket's Deputy Governor Worapot Ratthaseema told The Associated Press that at least 66 bodies were laid out in the airport building.
"At least 66 people have been confirmed and 42 have been hospitalized," Worapot said, adding the remaining passengers are missing and presumed to be still inside the wreckage.
Thailand's national news agency reported 20 survivors were taken to hospitals to be treated for their injuries, according to the director-general of Thailand's Civil Aviation Department.
The main hospital in Phuket was treating 28 patients injured the crash, a hospital spokeswoman told CNN.
The hospital detailed their nationalities as: Australian: 1, Austrian: 1, British: 8, German: 4, Iranian: 3, Irish: 3, Italy: 1, Thai: 7 .
The passenger jet skidded off the runway during a landing attempt amid heavy rain and strong crosswinds, according to Thai News Agency (TNA).
"What it looked like to me was that it actually landed, and then crashed, maybe skidded off the runway," witness William Harding said. Watch images from scene of crash. »
"The inside (of the plane) was totally on fire and about five minutes of burning, there was a small explosion that blew off top of the plane."
Harding said he landed at Phuket on another One-Two-Go airliner that landed five minutes before the plane crash.
"It was the roughest landing I've ever experienced," he said. "I've never been through anything like that." Harding, who lives in the resort town of Phuket, said the plane "knocked up against a hill."
Video showed dozens of ambulances and fire trucks on the scene, which was enveloped in black smoke.
"The jet was crashed and up into a hill that's the size of a runway," Harding said. "It looked basically intact. The wing was still attached to the fuselage. The tail was down. But the inside of the plane was totally ablaze."
One-Two-Go, a subsidiary of Orient Thai Airways is a low-cost airliner that operates in Thailand.
Phuket International Airport is the second-busiest airport in Thailand, according to the airport's Web site. The airport is about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from downtown Phuket
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MySpace launches Web TV show
Facebook may be getting all the headlines lately, but MySpace still has a few cards up its sleeve -- including the connections it has to some of the top names in traditional media, thanks to its parent company, media and entertainment giant News Corp.
The social-networking site announced today that it has signed an exclusive deal with Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, the Hollywood duo that produced such hit TV shows as Thirtysomething and My So-Called Life, for the rights to a new Internet drama the pair are working on, called Quarterlife.
Episodes -- or webisodes -- of the show, which follows a group of twentysomethings through the eyes of one young girl with a video-blog, will appear first on MySpaceTV, and then on the Quarterlife.com website.
Jeff Berman, the general manager of MySpaceTV, said in an interview that the show was a “landmark moment” for MySpace, and that it would be “the highest-quality serialized content ever to appear on the Internet. We're talking about the same production values as 24 or Prison Break.”
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There have been a number of episodic TV-style shows created for the Internet, including the popular Lonelygirl15 show, which was developed by a trio of unknowns and also appears on MySpaceTV. More recently, former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner's company created a show called Prom Queen, which aired on MySpaceTV and drew a large following.
Entertainment websites have been speculating for several months about a possible Internet offering from Mr. Zwick and Mr. Herskovitz, after a number of reports leaked out about TV writers and production staff working on something called Quarterlife. The Hollywood duo had a traditional TV show of the same name that ran briefly in 2005.
“We've been talking to [Zwick and Herskovitz] for the past several weeks, and we're delighted to be able to announce this,” Mr. Berman said. The first “webisode” will be posted on MySpaceTV on November 11, he said.
Under the terms of the deal, the social-networking site has a 24-hour window during which the webisode will only be available on MySpaceTV. After that, it will appear on Quarterlife.com. Both sites will have interactive features, Mr. Berman said, but on MySpace viewers will be able to interact with the cast through their MySpace pages.
MySpace users and bloggers on other sites will also be able to “embed” the webisodes in their pages by pasting in a small chunk of code, as they can with video clips on other sites such as YouTube, Blip.tv and DailyMotion.
When asked whether the new show would have a mobile component involving cellphones, Mr. Berman said “stay tuned.” He also said that MySpaceTV was working on several other projects with content creators in the entertainment community.
According to Mr. Berman, more than 50 million users stream video each month from their MySpace webpages, and the social-networking site as a whole produces 500 million individual video streams every month.