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by **larral1123** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:45 am

http://msn.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/artic...720&ref=rss

by **Ian Warren** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:44 am

Goose ... its time to buzz the tower ... no Mav , it not a good time - In flightsim we find trees on the runway - on the Thai island of Samui they put control towers there !

by **2fst4u** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:46 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Aug 5 2009, 10:44 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Goose ... its time to buzz the tower ... no Mav , it not a good time - In flightsim we find trees on the runway - on the Thai island of Samui they put control towers there !

tower, this is ghostrider, request flyby.
negative ghostrider, the pattern is full.

not too good someone died.

by **jastheace** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 5:05 pm

according to the news here in oz the pilot died, everyone else live, 70 odd injuries though, seems they have a lot of staying on runways issues over there

by **spongebob206** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 5:31 pm

Don't do it Mav

by **Anthony** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 5:34 pm

Oh... RIP to the pilot, but it could have been worse I guess. 70 odd injuries seems to be a few, I wonder how severe the impact was.

by **shotgun** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:06 pm

EJECT

by **jastheace** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:40 pm

again according to our news, skidded off end of a wet runway, so sounds like not very fast, properly the cockpit took the brunt of impact at a slower speed, only what i have heard so far

jason

by **waka172rg** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:37 pm

Ian i think the word is Oh No Spaghetti O

by **Chairman** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 12:32 am

The Herald report is very brief, there is a lot more news to be had about this if you put a couple of minutes into google.

And a shock announcement too - according to the Irish Independant there is now a jet powered version of the ATR 72-500, refer to their article "Irish girls tell of horror as jet crash-lands on Thai island". Complete with photo of the plane and it's six bladed errr jets.

The crew deserve praise too (unfortunately posthumous in the case of the captain) for their efficiency - rather than making the crash crews come all the way out to the plane they obligingly took the plane to the crash crews - from comcast.net - "The Bangkok Airways flight landed in stormy weather and hit the airport's old air traffic control tower, which had been converted into a fire station"

Gary

by **Ian Warren** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:02 am

waka172rg wrote:
QUOTE (waka172rg @ Aug 6 2009, 12:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Oh No Spaghetti O

jezzzz havnt heard that for so long .......

by **Syncop8r** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 1:04 pm

Chairman wrote:
QUOTE (Chairman @ Aug 6 2009, 12:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
according to the Irish Independant there is now a jet powered version of the ATR 72-500

I thought that a turboprop technically was a "jet" but according to wiki it ain't.

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