“Aviation crash investigators will this morning continue their painstaking search for wreckage of a Lauda Air Boeing 767-300 in remote western Thai jungle as mystery grows over the cause of the mid-air fire and explosion,” ran the South China Morning Post’s lead story on May 28, 1991.

It was the newspaper’s first report of the Lauda Air crash, the plane having plunged from the sky in a “fireball” just after midnight Hongkong time the day before, 20 minutes after departing Bangkok.

“At least 50 Hongkong residents [later confirmed as 52] were among the 223 passengers and crew killed when the plane went down near Dan Chang, making it the 12th most serious air disaster in aviation history,” the Post reported.