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  1. Wouldn't exactly want the Thais help considering that they followed that doomed Malaysian airliner on their instruments and only informed the relevant authorities the next day that they had tracked it. When asked why they didn't report it their answer was ''you never asked us''?

    Thailand offers search and rescue assistance for missing AirAsia plane

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    BANGKOK: -- Thailand's Department of Civil Aviation is offering assistance to Indonesia to send aircraft and ships to join in the search for the AirAsia plane which went missing Sunday with 162 passengers on a flight from Indonesia to Singapore.

    As Indonesia is now leading the search and rescue operation, the department has offered help to Indonesian civil aviation to join the search, said a senior official of the department Monday.

    The department is now in coordination with the Royal Thai Air Force and Royal Thai Navy to stand by their aircraft and ships to join the search today.

    Meanwhile Indonesia resumed the search Monday morning after the jet disappeared more than 24 hours ago on a flight from Indonesia to Singapore.

    First Admiral Sigit Setiayana, the Naval Aviation Center commander at the Surabaya air force base, said that 12 navy ships, five planes, three helicopters and a number of warships were talking part, along with ships and planes from Singapore and Malaysia. The Australian Air Force also sent a search plane.

    Setiaya said visibility was good. “God willing, we can find it soon,” he told AFP today.

    AirAsia Flight QZ8501 vanished in airspace thick with storm clouds on its way from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore. Searchers had to fight against heavy rain on Sunday before work was suspended due to darkness.

    The plane’s disappearance and suspected crash caps an astonishingly tragic year for air travel in Southeast Asia. The Malaysia-based carrier’s loss comes on top of the still-unexplained disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in March and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July over Ukraine.

    AirAsia’s Airbus A320 took off Sunday morning from Indonesia’s second-largest city and was about halfway to Singapore when it vanished from radar.

    The jet had been airborne for about 42 minutes.

    There was no distress signal from the twin-engine, single-aisle plane, said Djoko Murjatmodjo, Indonesia’s acting director general of transportation.

    The last communication between the cockpit and air traffic control was at 6:13 a.m. (23:13 GMT Saturday), when one of the pilots “asked to avoid clouds by turning left and going higher to 34,000 feet (10,360 meters).

    The jet was last seen on radar at 6:16 a.m. and was gone a minute later.

    Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia launched a search-and-rescue operation near Belitung island in the Java Sea, the area where the airliner lost contact with the ground.

    Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/thailand-offers-search-rescue-assistance-missing-airasia-plane

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    -- Thai PBS 2014-12-29

  2. Brave young soldiers these.

    They deserve more than they will probably get.

    These crimes should be deterred with imprisonment and forced hard labor.

    It would be nice if the PM turned to judicial issues and used violent criminals as slave labor in labor camps. What about digging canals to help with annual flooding, that a dirty thankless job. With loads of free labor, it could be sorted in no time.wai2.gif

    Why are you calling them soldiers???

  3. Last month My Thai gf and I exited the MoChit station and went to the motorbike taxi stand where there was a price list displaying a charge of 200 THb to go to immigration.That would be a charge of 400 Thb each way as they would carry only one passenger each. Further up the street there were a few metred taxis who said it would be between 100 to 120 for the trip. We went there and returned for 100 each way which is quarter of the taxi bike fare.Go figure!

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