Two Royal Thai Air Force C130 aircraft left the Subang air force base near here around 5.03pm and were expected to arrive at their destination in two-and-a-half hours.
Also onboard were 28 family members of the victims, and one passenger who was hurt in the accident. Three others were sent back earlier by ambulance.
Earlier, in Ipoh, Thai Embassy officials arrived at the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital mortuary at 8am to make arrangements to send home bodies of the Thai tourists killed in the bus crash along the Cameron Highlands-Simpang Pulai road.
Buddhist monks, Thai Embassy officials and family members kneeled and offered prayers before 25 coffins draped in white cloth which were arranged in two neat rows outside the mortuary.
Joss sticks and yellow chrysanthemums were also offered to the deceased.
The coffins were then loaded onto a 25-tonne trailer to be transported to the Subang air force base.
Pramualrat Phimpahu, 45, waiting to be carried into an ambulance at the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital to be taken to the Royal Malaysian Air Force base in Subang(L).Areena Songserm, 19, inside an ambulance which will take her Bukit Kayu Hitam where she will be received by Haadyai Hospital officers. With her is her mother Senah Songserm.(R)
Minmita Theenakun, 29, (second from right) being consoled by a family member at Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital where she claimed the bodies of her parents Phuwadit and Thanathon Tanasak Theenakun.
An additional van had to be used as the trailer could not fit all 25 bodies.
Both vehicles, together with other vehicles ferrying embassy officials and family members, left the mortuary at 12.15pm.
Haadyai Hospital consultant Choowit Jiranivatanont said four patients in stable condition were also discharged from the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital.
Crash survivors Areena Songserm, 20, Rungnapa Klungsuwan, 53, Suchanchira Chaiaueai, 41, were transported to the Bukit Kayu Hitam border before being sent to the Hattyai Hospital.
They left the hospital at 11.27am in two ambulances, escorted by a van with Thai embassy officials.
Another survivor, Pramualarat Phimpahu, 45, was taken to Subang air force base to be flown to Bangkok.
Thai Ambassador to Malaysia Thana Duangratana thanked the Malaysian government for its assistance.
Two police outriders and two police MPVs escorted the trailer with the bodies to Shah Alam.
