Huey crash in Thailand kills 5 on board

[regi]

read here about the crash of a Thai military Huey, killing all 5 on board.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews ... pter-crash

[regi]

This going totally wrong! The rescue helicopter, a Black Hwak ,woudld have crashed as well !
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/Ur ... 60601.html

[regi]

more in the Bangkok Post.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/2 ... ve-crashed

Some details for those interested: despite this area is not that far away from Bangkok, it is one of the last areas in Thailand where there is practically no accesability by land. Very mountainous terrain, jungle, ethnical problems.
In 2000 it was the area where the God's Army was active
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/616772.stm

But it houses also some drug laboratories, just on the Burmese border. The story about an entire patrol that vanished ( destroyed by a drug gang) and just the last 2 survivors were found after 1 month ( !) is still used as a horror story in commando and jungle war training.

The general who would have perished in this second crash is of the 9th infantry division of Kanchanaburi ( place of the Bridge over the River Kwai ), better known as the Lat Ya camp. It was this division that cracked down on protesters in 1992 and transported hundreds of protesters to the Lat Ya area.
I personally enjoyed some shooting excersises with Scorpion tanks on the shooting range mid nineties. The Thai joke was not to make too much noise to avoid waking the dead in the masss graves. No joke for me btw.

[Desert Rat]

Holly cow, I taught there was a third one now!!!

[regi]

Holly cow, I taught there was a third one now!!!

still 2, as far as I am informed.
But they still have to get 9 + 5 victims back.
So we wait what the rest of the week will bring.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/2 ... s-1st-army

[regi]

It is not going well, the operation to go (by foot) to the crash site of the second crash has been halted because it is too deep in Burmese territory.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews ... ion-halted

While I have my doubts about the capabilities of the Burmese to control intruison by air or land at that spot ( and to do something against it) , we see here that the outgoing government of Thailand is very careful with its neighbours. The outgoing PM said frankly that the stallmate situaation at the other side, around that temple in Cambodia, is now a problem for the next government.

[earthman]

They should send in their airship...

[regi]

They should send in their airship...

I wanted to reply with a funny remark that it has deflated. But looking up some details say...exactly that it has deflated. And that the required helium is costing them a lot.
http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?o ... Itemid=185
The travel from the southern border to Petchburi would take a day, just to make pictures from above. This white elephant can not do anything else - besides deflating.
And when it hits the same bad weather that brought down a Black Hawk, I am afraid that this airship will disappear from the RTAF operational aircrafts as well.

Other solution: send out some Harriers ! Yes, they have them. For their aircraft carrier. But operational?

[regi]

first picture:
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2011/07 ... 60781.html

The article sheds a light on the difference of culture. An army general who attends the bathing ritual for the dead. Very normal in Thailand. It shows the appreciation by superiors for the work done by subordinates towards the family. But I can not imagine our MoD De Crem doing something similar in the morgue.
For westerners it is also shocking to see how easely Thai people handle corpses (see tsunami ) But they don't see a human anymore in a dead body. Karma has left, and the soul has probably already reincarnated. The body is just the decaying "packaging" of that gone soul.

Anyway, if members are annoyed I stray too much off the aviation road, please inform.

In the mean time, I try to keep you informed about the progress of this operation.

[earthman]

I once read a news snippet of how many members of a family had died trying to rescue someone from a well. It went something like this, someone went into a water well, then succumbed to some poisonous gasses that were at the bottom. Someone went in after them to rescue them - same thing happened. This process was repeated a number of times. I think 8 or 10 people died.

[regi]

Bad news:
all 9 on board of the second crash ( the BH) are confirmed to be death as well.

more info and pictures:
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2011/07 ... 60872.html
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews ... hawk-crash

and for our Thai readers:

http://www.thairath.co.th/content/eco/188356

[Desert Rat]

...Sad...When Fon Tok in Thailand, this is not a joke...

[regi]

...Sad...When Foon Tok in Thailand, this is not a joke...

euh, second language correction: the word for rain is fon tok. So short, not long. ( and "tok" means to fall.)
I wonder how a 7-11 shop attendant would stare at me when I would ask for a pack of Sai Foon .

Feun means a piece of wood
Foon means...dust. Since I have inspected the huge ( 6000 female employees ) tobacco processing plant at Ban Phai ( Khon Kaen province ) of the company Adams, I can assure with the hand on my heart that they do all efforts to keep dust out of your smokes.
Interesting to have a look inside a tobacco factory ( but the 6000 employees seem to have vanished )
http://www.adamsint.com/Processing/processing.html

But when I ask for Sai Fon , I mean the brand " Falling Rain", the green packages of menthol cigarettes. And not a pack of dust.

At your service. ( bank transfers for private language courses can be arranged after mutual agreement )

[Desert Rat]

I don't see where i did a mistake in my original message....Fon Tok...

[regi]

No no, no cheating DR. I replied on your original message. An EDIT won't help you out.

Last edited by Desert Rat on 22 Jul 2011 03:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.

( unbelievable what pupils do to evade payment of private language lessons )

Anyway, let's get back to the topic.

Did you read the article in which the official states that the BH has no radar because that would have cost them another 20 M baht?

[Desert Rat]

Nope but I have the 54rBP in front of me and they are more interrested in the Watch Expo in Siam Paragon then chopper's crash...))...

by the way, thye will use mules soon apparently....interrested???...))...

[regi]

by the way, thye will use mules soon apparently....interrested???...))...

They would better do , see the crash of today.

[regi]

more pictures at the Thai newspaper:
http://www.thairath.co.th/content/region/187806

[Desert Rat]

just heard it now on TV5 monde...;-((..

[regi]

further information about the 3rd accident
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/securit ... pper-crash