low flying aircraft over Jomtien

[alocacoc]

I just saw low flying aircraft. Never saw a plane fly so low. I checked flightradar. It must be this plane:

http://www.flightradar24.com/AIQ3115/5d66425

Hat Yuai to Bangkok. Bat the route looks strange.

[Basil B]

Looks like it had a problem landing at Don Mung and diverted to U-Tapao.

[alocacoc]

Could make sense. Flightradar says altitude was about 2000ft / 600 metres. Now the airplane is not longer on flightradar.

Hope everything is fine.

[joepattaya1961]

Airbus A320? Seems to have problems with staying in the air

[eddie61]

there were low flying Thai airways A380 over Baan Chang a couple of years ago: quite distracting even there.

I think they were learning to fly out of U-tapao

[recycler]

U-Tapao Airport, west of Ban Chang is used for airplane maintenance and pilot training a lot and there are civilian and military flights from it. Many planes circling, making touchdowns, arriving and leaving. If they leave in a north west direction they won't be very high near Jomtien yet.

[craigt3365]

I heard from a friend who works at Utapao that there's a new flight from there to Bangkok. He said 500B and only takes a few minutes. I saw a big plane flying low over us the other day. Maybe due to the direction of the wind???

[recycler]

I heard from a friend who works at Utapao that there's a new flight from there to Bangkok. He said 500B and only takes a few minutes. I saw a big plane flying low over us the other day. Maybe due to the direction of the wind???

Yes, that's Kan Air they are developing some routes from U-Tapao http://www.kanairlines.com/web/

[lumply]

All aircraft 'fly low' on approach to land, departure and often during a missed approach, so nothing unusual there. Depending on which type of aircraft was seen, it could have been on an instrument calibration flight or photographic flight. Eye witness non pilot statements are notoriously unreliable especially in judging altitude and engine noise, even direction. Apparent low flying aircraft are a fact of life. Logical.

[alocacoc]

In this case it was flight FD3115/AIQ3115, a A320 from Air Asia from Hat Yai to Dong Mueng. The plane landed more then one hour later then scheduled.

http://www.flightradar24.com/flight/fd3115

[wgdanson]

Looks like it had a problem landing at Don Mung and diverted to U-Tapao.

There was one mighty storm at that time at Swampy. Maybe a diversion

[alocacoc]

Looks like it had a problem landing at Don Mung and diverted to U-Tapao.

There was one mighty storm at that time at Swampy. Maybe a diversion

Yes, you're right.

6 Planes got diverted to U-Tapao (which also included AIQ3115) because of heavy rain and storm in Swampy.

I found confirmations on Thai News sites;

http://m.naewna.com/view/breakingnews/150967

http://news.sanook.com/1769753/

http://www.innnews.co.th/shownews/show?newscode=607765

[Basil B]

The OP posted a link to Flightradar this is real time radar information and the information is only held for a short time.

What I recall was the flight in question doing two or more loops round Don Mung, as if in a holding pattern, on hind sight it is most unusual to hold over the airport they intend to land at so possibly it was due to land at Swampy.

Lot of other planes at the same time doing holds all over the place so the weather is probable the reason.

[agogohome]

In this case it was flight FD3115/AIQ3115, a A320 from Air Asia from Hat Yai to Dong Mueng. The plane landed more then one hour later then scheduled.

http://www.flightradar24.com/flight/fd3115

Don't all Air Asia planes land an hour later than scheduled!

[Basil B]

OK from other sources, the plane HS-ABJ flying Hat Yai to Don Mung made two missed approaches to Don Mung then turned west before turning SSE and climbing to 10,000ft, lost contact over the Gulf and assume it had started it's decent U-Tapio well before passing over Jomtien.

[questionsreplies]

Flying is safer and safer they said ! My axx....

[MarcelV]

I flew over Pattaya City bay and Suvarnabhumi last December, when flying Thai Lion Air from Hat Yai to Udon. A spectacular sight, to say the least, but not that low.