Details of Fiery Jet Crash Emerge ; Pilot Tried to Abort Landing, Officials Say

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PHUKET, Thailand Stunned by the plane crash, Robert Borland found himself helpless on the floor of the jet with his trousers aflame when a passenger in a yellow shirt helped him out onto the wing. He knows nothing else about the man who probably saved his life.

Borland was among 41 survivors of Sunday's crash at the airport on the Thai resort island of Phuket. Eighty-nine people were killed when the One-Two-Go jetliner skidded off the runway, breaking up and catching fire as it plowed through a low wall.

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Details of Fiery Jet Crash Emerge ; Pilot Tried to Abort Landing, Officials Say

"Everything was upside down, or at least it felt that way," said Borland, recalling the screaming ...

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