By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT was seen as an unprecedented, aerial event, the air force today (Aug.14) commissioned a trio of F-16 fighter jets to give a mid-air greeting for Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul who literally piloted a turboprop civilian plane to visit their Wing 1 air force base in Nakhon Ratchasima. A
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Phuket Airport closed till evening after aircraft malfunctions while landing
PHUKET Airport has been closed till 6 p.m. today (Mar. 11) with 120 flights affected after an Air India Express airplane malfunctioned while landing on the runway but fortunately there were no injuries, Amarin TV and Naewna newspaper said. Initial investigations revealed that the Boeing 737-800 aircraft, on flight AXB938 from Hyderabad to Phuket,
Read moreSuspicious plane leaves Cambodia via Thai airspace
AMID keen interest about a Belarusian cargo airplane that avoided Thai airspace in flying to Cambodia just hours after the Thai-Cambodian ceasefire came into effect raising suspicions that it could been have loaded with weapons it was revealed that on flying back from the neighbouring country it did pass Thai airspace, Amarin TV said
Read moreLight airplane crashlands on rooftop, killing trainer pilot in Samut Sakhon
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A LIGHT SPORT AIRPLANE crashlanded onto the rooftop of a house, instantly killing the pilot in Samut Sakhon today (Aug. 3), police said. The CH-601 turboprop, two-seater light airplane suddenly lost altitude and rammed into the roof of the resort house in Khok Kham subdistrict of the capital district of
Read moreAirplane makes emergency landing at U Tapao Airport after landing gear problem
A FLYDUBAI aircraft heading from Dubai to the Philippines made an emergency landing at U Tapao Airport soon after midnight last night (June 15) after the landing gear initially failed to deploy, Sanook.com, TV Channel 7, Naewna and Daily News newspapers said. Approximately a hundred passengers plus the captain, a co-pilot and seven crew
Read more20 turbulence-hit flight passengers still in ICU: Hospital
AS MANY AS 20 passengers travelling on a Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight that had to make an emergency landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport yesterday (May 21) after running into severe turbulence are still in ICU, Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital said in a second statement this afternoon, according to Amarin TV. Altogether 27 passengers had been discharged
Read moreThai AirAsia plane lands safely after power bank explodes
ALL 186 passengers and crew of Thai AirAsia flight FD3188 heading from Don Mueang Airport in Bangkok to Nakhon Si Thammarat at 7.20 a.m. this morning (Feb. 24) were unharmed and the plane landed safely at the destination after a power bank exploded, Matichon newspaper quoted TV Channel 3 as saying. On this flight
Read morePassenger shares photos of dirty, torn airplane seats
AN AIR PASSENGER’S photos of dirty and torn airplane seats sparked furore among stunned Thai social media users today (Feb. 3), Sanook.com said. The unidentified passenger who shared these photos to a Facebook group called We the Consumers said he is flying every Friday and returning on Sunday till March and had made bookings
Read moreSmall plane crashes in Chonburi, foreigner dead
A SMALL airplane crashed in Chonburi this morning (Jan. 13) with one unidentified foreigner having died and another person injured, Matichon newspaper said. The light aircraft crashed near Huai Yai temple, Huai Yai subdistrict, Bang Lamung district, Chonburi province. A police team from Huai Yai station quickly rushed there and found that of the
Read moreAirplane linked to arrested Chinese grey capitalist seized
THE Justice Ministry today (Nov. 26) said an airplane that belongs to a company in which arrested Chinese grey capitalist Mr. Chaiyanat Kornchaiyanana, alias Tu Hao, holds a stake has been seized, Matichon newspaper said. Officials from the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) had earlier been unable to seize this airplane, parked
Read moreNavy plane lands safely despite front wheel jamming
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A NAVY AIRPLANE made a safe emergency landing at Narathiwat airport today (August 11) despite a failure of its front wheel. The navy’s F27 Mk 200 Anti-Submarine Warfare plane landed on the single runway of the airport with two pilots and 12 passengers being reported safe, according to navy spokesman Vice
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