buckdoff

Just remember your maternal grandfather: that is the bald or otherwise card.

Sure didn't work for me, my maternal grandfather died in his 90's with a full head of white hair and I was bald at 40.

buckdoff, are you able to post, or even send me, a sketch of where the aircraft finished relative to the runway. I can't figure out where it was from the pics I've seen, and I'm intrigued how this happened.

I don't have much in the way of graphic skills and I tried using Paint but my hand wasn't steady enough to draw a reasonably straight line. I am at my daughter's house and I will be home to my desktop comp next week and I think I have an old Corel Draw program that I can do it with there, so please be patient.

Ummmm, what a shame you didn't enlighten us all much earlier and 4 pages of speculation could have been avoided!!

It's difficult to believe that even an inexperienced pilot could have put an aircraft in this position.

Sorry I didn't do it sooner but I was a bit frazzled and was hurrying to catch my plane travelling back to the states but I did post it the next morning after I arrived.

Believe what you may, i'm only relating my experience. Isn't it possible that there was a malfunction in the steering?

On a brighter note, the Nok Air and Trang airport staff handled the situation very nicely. Can't say the same for the miserable crowded van ride to Hat Yai to catch the next flight to Bangkok though, that was not fun.

Ummm, I'm not speculating, I was on board the plane.

I was sitting in seat A on the left hand side of the aircraft, a window seat so I had a good view when we made the U-Turn.

The plane didn't "slide" off the runway, it was going the way the the wheels were turned and simply went off the runway.

It was not going too fast when he made the U-Turn, but for some reason the wheels didn't turn back to straight when we were lined up on the center line. I'm assuming it had something to do with the abnormal amount of power that was applied before the plane was aligned with the center line on the runway.

The plane wound up like you see it in the pictures at an angle to the runway, One of the pictures shows the wing wheels tracks which plainly show it wasn't "sliding".

That's exactly how it happened, end of story.

To clear up some points of comments made in this thread. I am not a pilot nor have no technical knowledge but this is the conditions and what happened from my point of view.

It was NOT raining at the time of the accident or at the very least it was very very light rain. It had rained very heavily about 10 minutes or so before departure from the terminal.

There is only one runway with no parallel taxiways at Trang airport just as the Google map shows.

The plane left the terminal and "hurried" down the runway I assume to try to make up for being a bit late. It then made or started to make a U-Turn at the end of the runway which is normal. However, power was applied while the aircraft was still turning and was not aligned at takeoff middle line. The aircraft kept turning and it seemed the wheels did not straighten until too late so it went off the runway at low speed.