Bangkok Airways flight crashes on Samui

A Bangkok Airways plane skidded off the runway and crashed at Samui airport, resulting in at least one death and 41 injured.

Flight PG 266 crashed on arriving from Krabi province on a rainy and windy afternoon on Tuesday.

The pilot, Chartchai Pansuwan, was killed in the accident.

The twin engine propeller driven ATR72 plane swerved off the runway and crashed into an old control tower now being used as a parking space for fire engines.

Seventy-two passengers and four cabin crew boarded the plane.

Thai Airways International had cancelled its TG 287 and TG 288 flights to Samui in Surat Thani following the accident.

(Bangkok Post)

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One would think you were there Admin with those pictures...

Last night on News of Asian there were reported 7 dead and a lot more injured... Might be more later..

You only get breaking news here ..................

Anyway, in the article it stated that, and I quote 'Thai Airways International had cancelled its TG 287 and TG 288 flights to Samui in Surat Thani following the accident.' Since when has Thai Airways been running into Samui?

Guess they have a double name for the flights as people have booked up through Thai airways...

Or maybe they do not want to land next to the wreck??? scare people from flying???

Or pay for the damage to the parked fire engines!! For those who did perish, be it 1 or 7, I hope it was a quick death and may they......

Thai Airways only get 2 flights a day as part of a sharing deal that started 2 years ago!! I think under the agreement they have to sell their tickets at the same price as Bangkok Airways.....
It's a toss up, they are both rubbish

Samui Airport reopened

Samui Airport resumed operations at 2 pm today, Bangkok Airways announced in a press release.

The first departing flight was Bangkok Airways PG100, which took off at 2 pm, bound for Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport.

The co-pilot of the Bangkok Airways flight that crashed into an abandoned control tower yesterday afternoon remains in critical condition at Bangkok Hospital in the capital. He will undergo surgery on his chest and abdomen tonight, the hospital announced.

Bangkok Hospital CEO Chatree Duangnet said the co-pilot, Thanawat Premreuthai, remained in the hospital’s intensive care unit.

He suffered multiple bone fractures, a broken right arm, broken left hip, and a broken rib that pierced through his right lung, causing internal bleeding in his abdomen.

His liver was also torn from the impact, he said.

Mr Thanawat, who received emergency surgery at the Bangkok Samui Hospital, will now undergo abdominal surgery at Bangkok Hospital.

Flight Captain Chartchai Punsuwan was killed when the aircraft, an ATR72-500, hit an unused air-traffic-control tower at the airport, a privately-run facility owned by Bangkok Airways.

Also injured in the crash and being treated at Bangkok Hospital Samui are the following passengers and Thai crew members:

Linda Thongkorn, 28, crew member

Supanasa Namjit, 25, crew member

Mr Nicolas Havel, 39, Briton

Mr Panteli Pantelis, 39, Briton

Mrs Elodie Lacovangelo, 41, Swiss

Mrs Mirella Gastaldi, 39, Italian

Mr Thanawat Premrudee, 35, co-pilot

Miss Joyce Goosleng, 26, Briton

Miss Claire Ballantye, 38, Briton

List of injured passengers at Ban Don Inter Hospital:

Mr Abreheam Gzaaf, 42, Dutch

Mr Lucar Gzaaf, 11, Dutch

(The Nation)