Army Cessna on routine patrol plunges in Thai-Myanmar border area

By The Nation

 

Photo from: Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation61

 

An Army Cessna 182 light aeroplane on a routine air patrol with four officers on-board, on Thursday crashed in a remote area in Mae Hong Son province four kilometres from the Myanmar border.

 

The fate of the officers onboard was unknown at press time.

 

The cause of the aircraft’s crash in Muang district – reportedly during “open sky” conditions – is under investigation, said Third Region Army commander Lt-General Vijak Siribansop. 

 

The four officers onboard were identified as two pilots – Lieutenant Nareupol Pookthong and Lieutenant Wiroj Taengkratok – and two officers – Lieutenant Khemarat Doungkaew and Sgt-Major 1st Class Chatchanan Kheunkaew.

 

A source at the 7th Infantry Regiment’s Special Task Force, which dispatched a helicopter to scout the target area, spotted the crashed aircraft on a mountainous area near Ban Huai Sai Khao in Tambon Huai Pha of Muang district at about 5pm. 

 

Officers were dispatched to the crash site to deliver aid but had not yet reached it as of press time.

 

The six-seater aeroplane had gone off the radar around 11am in the Thai-Myanmar border area in the province’s Pang Mapha district, prompting the army unit’s search. 

 

An earlier attempt to locate the missing plane also led to a request to the Shan State Army to search their territory in Loi Tai Lang, Myanmar, opposite to the province’s Tambon Pang Mapha.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30349414

 

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Thai Army U-17B (Cessna A185E Skywagon) 1454 :

 

 

Ex Vietnamese Air Force (originally ordered/delivered to US military).

 

Built 1971.

 

 

 

Edited July 5, 20188 yr by Enoon

Injured trooper rushed to hospital, bodies retrieved in Army plane crash

By The Nation

 

Photo from Facebook page c-mee.

 

Rescuers rushed an injured Army trooper to hospital and retrieved three bodies after an Army Cessna 182 light aeroplane crashed in Mae Hong Son province near the Myanmar border on Thursday.
 

A rescue team from the 17th Infantry Regiment, local defence volunteers from Ban Huay Pheung village, the Mae Hong Song Disaster Mitigation Office as well as a medical team from the Mae Hong Son Hospital reached the crash site in a remote area in Mae Hong Son four kilometres inside the border at 10pm.

 

The rescuers found a seriously injured passenger, who was able to talk, but the other passenger and the two pilots were dead.

 

Sgt-Major 1st Class Chatchanan Kheunkaew, a logistic troopers from the 17th Infantry Regiment, suffered burns to 60 per cent of his body.

 

The rescue team rushed him to Mae Hong Son Hospital.

 

The two pilots – Lieutenant Nareupol Pookthong and Lieutenant Wiroj Taengkratok – and the other passenger, Lieutenant Khemarat Doungkaew, were dead.

 

Before the rescue team was sent it, an Army helicopter was dispatched to search for the six-seater plane at 4.50pm after it disappeared from radar around 11am in the Thai-Myanmar border area of the province’s Pang Mapha district.

 

The helicopter spotted the crashed aeroplane in a mountainous area near Ban Huai Sai Khao in Tambon Huai Pha of Muang district at about 5pm.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30349447

 

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I would have thought that they would send a rescue team that could rope/winch to the plane wreck. They could have had the injured man to a hospital a lot sooner.

Oh dear.

Wrong Amulet day.

R.I.P and Condolences to the family's,

Hope the one survivor recovers.

 

Edited July 6, 20188 yr by stanleycoin

I mean they spot the wreck with a helicopter and then send in a rescue team on foot? Why not drop a rescue team by helicopter and retrieve the dead/injured via helicopter?  The poor survivor with burns to 60% of his body must have been in agony. 

42 minutes ago, pieeyed said:

I mean they spot the wreck with a helicopter and then send in a rescue team on foot? Why not drop a rescue team by helicopter and retrieve the dead/injured via helicopter?  The poor survivor with burns to 60% of his body must have been in agony. 

Mountainous jungle terrain - no Helicopter Landing Site for many kilometres - probably the nearest HLS was at the village the rescue team at out from. 

 

Very probably no winch equipped helicopters available (VIP comfy seats probably regarded as more important fit out), and despite the no doubt universal para wings and airborne flashes amongst the troops available, actually abseiling/rappelling through jungle is probably not a skill they have.

28 minutes ago, JAG said:

Mountainous jungle terrain - no Helicopter Landing Site for many kilometres - probably the nearest HLS was at the village the rescue team at out from. 

 

Very probably no winch equipped helicopters available (VIP comfy seats probably regarded as more important fit out), and despite the no doubt universal para wings and airborne flashes amongst the troops available, actually abseiling/rappelling through jungle is probably not a skill they have.

Mountain area, locally at this time of year has fairly high winds, blowing in all different directions including vertically, trees all around maybe on a very steep slope. Abseiling lines getting snagged on trees.

But, as you say, should be easy.

???

Well should be for a lot of guys here if done from a high bar stool.

?

Edited July 6, 20188 yr by overherebc

Off  radar for many hours before anything was done.

Aircraft crashes, Thaigeezers make ill informed comments about rescues.

 

Next along will be the people who make comments about old aircraft then beatch about buying new equipment!

7 hours ago, pieeyed said:

I mean they spot the wreck with a helicopter and then send in a rescue team on foot? Why not drop a rescue team by helicopter and retrieve the dead/injured via helicopter?  The poor survivor with burns to 60% of his body must have been in agony. 

You are talking about the year 2018. What year was the plane built, about 1970; same mentality thinking of the army.

Why is it that when any tragic incident happens in the kingdom, one or two people on here always have something negative to say about Thai people?  answers please!!!

28 minutes ago, DavCurtis said:

Why is it that when any tragic incident happens in the kingdom, one or two people on here always have something negative to say about Thai people?  answers please!!!

Tin Gods.

3 hours ago, DavCurtis said:

Why is it that when any tragic incident happens in the kingdom, one or two people on here always have something negative to say about Thai people?  answers please!!!

 

Because of stuff like this:

 

17 die in trio of Thai army helicopter crashes - Flightglobal

 

You're welcome.

 

 

 

Oh My Dear...

 

Myanmar military now have SAM Pea Shooters.

5 hours ago, Enoon said:

 

Because of stuff like this:

 

17 die in trio of Thai army helicopter crashes - Flightglobal

 

You're welcome.

 

 

 

You should have a  google on helicopter crashes in the uk and north sea.

You're welcome.