Runway reopened at Suvarnabhumi, jumbo jet retrieved after skidding in heavy rains

By The Nation

 

 

One of the Suvarnabhumi Airport runways, which was the scene of a Thai Airways international flight from China skidding off course while landing in heavy rain on Monday night, was reopened and traffic resumed at 5pm today.

 

Transport Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith thanked all who contributed to safely and efficiently retrieving a “jumbo jet” that had skidded off the runway, with the time required to free the plane and clear the scene kept under four hours yesterday – about 90 minutes less than the estimated completion time. 

 

Arkhom said the Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee Office would speedily probe the incident’s cause.

 

According to Flight Lieutenant Pratthana Pattanasirim, THAI’s director of security and flight standards division, no one was injured when flight TG 679 skidded off the runway. 

 

The Boeing 747400 had 97 passengers and 18 crew on board. 

 

It left Guangzhou at 8.58pm (local time) and arrived at Suvarnabhumi at 10.48pm.

 

Passengers were safely transferred from the plane to the terminal and THAI gave them snacks and drinks while they waited for their luggage. 

 

Pratthana said the airline would cooperate with other agencies to investigate the cause of the accident.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30356128

 

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11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Pratthana said the airline would cooperate with other agencies to investigate the cause of the accident.

Ghosts........

Standard answer failed brakes or rain on the road ( oops I mean tarmac) ????

23 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

Ghosts........

or brakes failed ?

What these jumbo jets need is a shrine in the north east corner and a bottle of red fanta before every flight.

9 minutes ago, Darcula said:

What these jumbo jets need is a shrine in the north east corner and a bottle of red fanta before every flight.

Chinese Fanta of course.......

Thai Air, very unsafe and now we all wait 4 YEARS for safety actions to be in place..Never fly Thai you might end up in a field . 2 planes in less than a year. Um !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very different salvage crew than those 'trying' to raise the Phoenix.

You can't blame the pilot.

He was looking for that third runway budgeted in circa 2011.

Still not built yet.

You are so right about the third runway. That is the first expansion which should have been made .

2 hours ago, Darcula said:

What these jumbo jets need is a shrine in the north east corner and a bottle of red fanta before every flight.

Can’t, they’re building the long awaited terminal extension there. Still, might do well to have a giant amulet hanging from the fuselage.

36 minutes ago, Searat7 said:

You are so right about the third runway. That is the first expansion which should have been made .

even a third, fourth or fifth runway can make an aircraft do "aquaplaning" during heavy rains.

A full load of passengers, even Chinese, would have given the aircraft adequate weight to stop it from hydroplaning and going off the runway. Still, it's the 1st Officers job to brake to landing.

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

97 passengers

 

How many paid, and how many freeloaders?

47 minutes ago, oldrunner said:

A full load of passengers, even Chinese, would have given the aircraft adequate weight to stop it from hydroplaning and going off the runway. Still, it's the 1st Officers job to brake to landing.

BS²