Footage shows the 'aeroplane graveyard' in Bangkok - a patch of wasteland home to scrapped planes that has become an unlikely tourist attraction.

The junked Boeing 747 and two McDonnell Douglas MD-82 were dumped there in 2010 following a crash in Phuket, Thailand, in which 85 passengers and five crew members.

Both of the two smaller planes belonged to defunct carrier One-Two-Go Airlines, which was banned between 2009 and 2010 from operating in European Union nations due to safety concerns.

There were also chilling findings that the carrier's pilots were overworked at the time of the deadly crash and resulting inferno caused form a failed go-around in windy conditions.

The owners later changed the name to Orient Thai Airlines following the accident and changed the fleet - selling the two smaller planes for scrap before they were dumped on the wasteland in the Ramkhamhaeng district.

Despite the macabre history of the aircraft, the site has become one of the world's best know urban exploration destinations for planes. Dozens of backpackers and young travellers can be found trawling the metal shells of the planes each day.

An opportunistic family of squatters who live a makeshift home on the patch of land, which belongs to a businessman yet to sell the real estate, collect an entrance fee of 200 baht (around $6.20) from each person.

Travel bloggers have described the area as ''one of the world’s more famous abandoned places''.

Rummaging around a derelict Boeing 747 is not something you will get the opportunity to do every day and it is a surreal experience,'' wrote Mark Bennetts from the site Kathmandu & Beyond.

''Like most people, before visiting the airplane graveyard, I have only ever entered a 747 through the small door on its side, turned right (and occasionally left when I was working) and proceeded down the aisle to sit in my seat. It’s not until you are alone in the stripped-out body of one of these huge, flying beasts that you realise how massive they really are.''