Company Found Culpable In Cadet Parachuting Deaths

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

  

Photos of police cadets Chayakorn Puttachaiyong, left, and Nattawut Tirasuwansuk, right, taken from their Facebook profiles.

 

BANGKOK — A court Wednesday ordered an aviation firm to pay compensation over faulty parachute slings that led to the deaths of two police cadets three years ago.

 

Thai Aviation Industries Ltd., which repairs and supplies civilian and military aircraft, must pay 2.7 million baht to the family of one of the two dead cadets. A lawyer representing both victims’ families said the damages were much lower than had been sought because the judges said the two trainees were partly to blame for their own deaths.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/2017/10/18/company-found-culpable-cadet-parachuting-deaths/

 

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Father of police cadet killed in parachuting mishap awarded Bt2.7 million

By The Nation

 

The father of a police cadet killed during parachute training in 2014 has been awarded Bt2.7 million in compensation.

The father, who’d been seeking Bt40 million, plans to appeal the ruling.

 

The Civil Court on Wednesday found private firm Thai Aviation Industries, along with the official in charge of procuring the plane-mounted cable used to open jumpers’ parachutes, responsible for the death of Chayakorn Putthachaiyong.

 

Chayakorn fell to his death on March 31, 2014, when his parachute failed to deploy during a training exercise.

 

The cable meant to serve as the automatic rip cord on his main parachute broke when he exited the plane, the court found.

 

Thai Aviation Industries was named second defendant and the purchasing officer ninth in the lawsuit filed by Chayakorn’s father, Sathorn Putthachaiyong.

 

Sathorn named Thai Airways International first defendant and six aircraft maintenance officers co-defendants, but the court decided they had no culpability in the cadet’s death.

 

THAI purchased the cables used on training aircraft. Thai Aviation Industries was in charge of mounting them on the planes.

 

Sathorn was seeking Bt40 million from the 10 defendants to cover funeral costs and expenses he will incur for the rest of his life without his son to take care of him.

 

The court reduced the amount to Bt2.7 million plus annual interest of 7.5 per cent, dating from January 21, 2016, the day after the suit was filed.

 

The compensation amount was reduced because the court deemed the cadet himself partly responsible, having failed to deploy his back-up parachute, as he would already have been instructed during his three months of training.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30329574

 

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A police investigation later ruled the plane should have been equipped with a foreign-made 99,000 baht sling, but Thai Aviation Industries Ltd. instead supplied a 9,300 baht sling made by a local company and embezzled the rest of the funds.

 

So it wasn't foreign-made....and Thai aviation embezzled the funds....will anybody go to jail for that??

1 hour ago, Thian said:

A police investigation later ruled the plane should have been equipped with a foreign-made 99,000 baht sling, but Thai Aviation Industries Ltd. instead supplied a 9,300 baht sling made by a local company and embezzled the rest of the funds.

 

So it wasn't foreign-made....and Thai aviation embezzled the funds....will anybody go to jail for that??

A separate criminal case against the company is underway, and no court date has been set more than three years after the accident.

22 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

A separate criminal case against the company is underway, and no court date has been set more than three years after the accident.

Nattawut and Chayakorn were among eight police cadets who participated in the Mar. 31, 2014, training exercise over Phetchaburi province. Families of the cadets were present to watch from the ground.

The sling failed to snap open the cadets’ canopies. While the six other trainees managed to open emergency parachutes and land unharmed, Nattawut and Chayakorn fell to their deaths, to the horror of those watching.

 

Thai aviation was very lucky that 6 young police cadets knew how to operate the emergency parachutes....

 

Imagine you are a parent watching your son doing the parajump...then the cord fails and they all fall down without parachute...then 2 of them fall to their death, i bet the parents didn't know at that moment if it was their son falling to death or not. Must have been a very painfull moment for all of them to not know if they had seen their son dying infront of their eyes. 

 

What a shame of a story, all caused by corrupt employees who embezzled the money given to them to buy a real good foreignmade sling. I hope the general also reads this story, they sure deserve jailtime imo.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The compensation amount was reduced because the court deemed the cadet himself partly responsible, having failed to deploy his back-up parachute, as he would already have been instructed during his three months of training.

That is a fairly contemptible judgement...

Edited October 18, 20178 yr by Bluespunk

15 minutes ago, Thian said:

Nattawut and Chayakorn were among eight police cadets who participated in the Mar. 31, 2014, training exercise over Phetchaburi province. Families of the cadets were present to watch from the ground.

The sling failed to snap open the cadets’ canopies. While the six other trainees managed to open emergency parachutes and land unharmed, Nattawut and Chayakorn fell to their deaths, to the horror of those watching.

 

Thai aviation was very lucky that 6 young police cadets knew how to operate the emergency parachutes....

 

Imagine you are a parent watching your son doing the parajump...then the cord fails and they all fall down without parachute...then 2 of them fall to their death, i bet the parents didn't know at that moment if it was their son falling to death or not. Must have been a very painfull moment for all of them to not know if they had seen their son dying infront of their eyes. 

 

What a shame of a story, all caused by corrupt employees who embezzled the money given to them to buy a real good foreignmade sling. I hope the general also reads this story, they sure deserve jailtime imo.

AFAIK each cadet had an individual sling and 2 broke. The other 6 cadets chutes opened normally.

During my parachute training emergency procedures are drummed into your head till you can do it in your sleep, LOOK, PULL, PUNCH, that reserve is out in seconds, I had to deploy it once.

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'An investigation later found that officials in charge had the parachute sling discreetly replaced with a cheap knockoff prior to the 2014 training exercise and pocketed the difference ... “The prosecutor’s still in the process of deciding whether to indict [the defendants],”' Shades of Red Bull. If some of these prosecutors had been given responsibility for indicting members of the Third Reich (thank God they weren't), they would never have reached Nuremberg.

 

'... the judges said the two trainees were partly to blame for their own deaths ... “They said the deceased were trained, so they were also responsible for what happened.”' If they were trained to that degree, they wouldn't have needed the use of a sling.

23 minutes ago, halloween said:

AFAIK each cadet had an individual sling and 2 broke. The other 6 cadets chutes opened normally.

No, they didn't. Read the article. All had to rely on emergency 'chutes. Six opened, two didn't.

Go Dad ! Don't settle for the joke amount ! Though I guess 2m is better than the 500 baht and a wai you were probably offered at the beginning

During my parachute training emergency procedures are drummed into your head till you can do it in your sleep, LOOK, PULL, PUNCH, that reserve is out in seconds, I had to deploy it once.

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Just maybe. Maybe Thai training is not as rigorous as yours?

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Just maybe. Maybe Thai training is not as rigorous as yours?

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My own personal view is they panicked, losing altitude all the time, as for the training, when I was taught the emergency drills, all of us on the course were self motivated to practice ourselves, self preservation.

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My own personal view is they panicked, losing altitude all the time, as for the training, when I was taught the emergency drills, all of us on the course were self motivated to practice ourselves, self preservation. Only two outcomes, live or die.

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