Plane crash in Thailand

فبراير 3rd, 2008

مقتل 100 شخص في تحطم طائرة ركاب تايلاندي
This Al Jazeera news clip is from September 2007, about a plane crash in Phuket in Thailand.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20800512/
مقتل (maqtal) - murder, death
شخص (shakhs) - person
حطم (hattama) - to wreck, smash, shatter, demolish
ركب (rakiba) - to ride, travel
طائرة (ta’ira) - airplane

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I am studying Arabic at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC, and will be in Egypt in the summer. This site covers Arabic grammar, vocabulary, and other aspects of the Arabic language, and makes frequent use of YouTube videos, news, and other Arabic language resources on the Internet.