Samui Airport Remains Closed / Reopened Now

[george]

Samui Airport remains closed

KOH SAMUI: -- Samui Airport will remain closed pending the investigation into the crash of Bangkok Airways flight on Tuesday which killed the captain of the aircraft.

Bangkok Airways President Capt Puttipong Prasarttong-Osoth President said the Civil Aviation Department will decide when the airport and the flights would be resumed.

He was speaking after a PG flight from Krabi which was touching down the airport slid off the runway and plunged into an old flight control tower at about 2.30pm on Tuesday.

The airport was closed at 3pm after the accident.

Captain of the flight Chartchai Pansuwan was killed at the scene while other passengers were injured. The flight was carrying 68 passengers and four crew members.

Puttipong said that most of the passengers were foreigners from Italy, France, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany and Switzerland.

He failed to give further details on the passengers.

As the airport service was suspended, the remaining passengers will use Surat Thani Airport, he said, they will be ferried to Surat Thani to get the flgiths to their destinations.

-- The Nation 2009-08-04

[carmine]

Apparently the airport reopens at 13.00 hrs today

[Rooo]

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Samui-Airpor...Af-t286080.html

[Rooo]

Samui Airport reopened

KOH SAMUI: -- The Samui Airport resumed operations at 2 pm Wednesday, the Bangkok Airways announced in a press release.

It said the first flight that left the Samui Airport was Bangkok Airways PG100 which took off at 2 pm. It is scheduled to land at the Suvarnabhumi Airport at 3 pm.

-- The Nation 2009-08-05