From today's
The Nation (Bangkok daily):
Vutichai Singhamany, a safety director at the Department of Civil Aviation, had earlier told Agence France-Presse that the pilot had put the landing gear down on his approach to Phuket in a heavy storm, but retracted it and then tried in vain to pull up.
"The wheels did not touch the runway," Vutichai told AFP. "Then the plane tried to pull up and the accident happened."
Do keep in mind that something does not become a fact simply because a Thai aviation official says it to be so.