One of the three was a former member of the JI terror network. He was detained in 2006 and was involved in Mas Selamat's plan to hijack a plane in order to crash it into Changi Airport.
The woman's husband and their 3-year-old daughter were seriously injured and taken to hospital. According to Japanese state media, the family of four were on holiday in Hokkaido.
The plane bound for Singapore had to return to the gate after a passenger's rechargeable power bank overheated and caught fire while the plane was on the ground at Taipei's Taoyuan airport.
300 baht (US$9) will be collected from foreign tourists arriving in the country beginning in June, with the money raised to support visitors involved in accidents as well as develop tourist destinations.
