AN INQUEST on eight people who were among the 90 victims of the One-Two-Go holiday air crash on Phuket is to be held early next year, a British media outlet reports.

Two of the British victims had married in Bangkok the day before the budget airline flight crash-landed on Phuket, the destination they had chosen for their honeymoon. Two other victims were witnesses at the wedding.

The unusual process of holding an inquest in Britain over deaths in Thailand has not been assisted by Thai officials, the thisislincolnshire.co.uk online site reported.

Lincolnshire coroner Stuart Fisher, who held a preliminary hearing review yesterday, said: "I have written to the chief executive of the airline by fax, asking if he would be prepared to attend or at least send a representative.

"A letter was also sent to Thailand via Foreign Office diplomatic bag. We have heard absolutely nothing."

Mr Fisher said the crucial witness would be Philip Taylor, a senior inspector of air accidents at the British Air Accident Investigation Branch, who could explain in simple terms some of the more complex parts of the crash investigation report.

Only a summary of the crash investigation report was released in Thailand. The summary highlighted pilot error as the cause of the crash on September 16, 2007, as Flight 269 from Bangkok came in to land on Phuket in a fierce storm.

Three survivors of the fatal flight may give evidence at the inquest. Among the 90 who died were popular local publican Neil ''Harry'' Slater, 43, his wife Helen, 31, and their close friends, newlyweds Steve Saunby, 41, and Susan Howell, 26.

Forty people on the plane survived the crash.

After being suspended then returning to the air once it met the standards of Thailand's Department of Civil Aviation, the One-Two-Go brand disappeared earlier this year and was replaced by its parent, Orient Thai.

British coroners have the power to rule on the causes of deaths and to make findings about culpability. There is no similar process in Thailand.