Oriental Thai airlines safety

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The CAAC said it would be equally vigilant in reprimanding foreign airline staff following two recent incidents. The front left wheel was found to be missing on an Oriental Thai Airlines flight on April 11, while an Emirates airbus landed in Beijing in January with a dangerously low amount of fuel.

Last month I read a report that Oriental Thai would be suspending flights to China and HK Indefinitely, the above report by the CAA of China could explain why

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https://thenanfang.com/airlines-punished-china-aviation-authority-safety-infractions/?utm_source=The+Nanfang+Newsletter&utm_campaign=17fca3bb3c-Nanfang_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7c49f770a9-17fca3bb3c-214472185&mc_cid=17fca3bb3c&mc_eid=c6e2e52507

Link to above

[Fabricus]

https://thenanfang.com/airlines-punished-china-aviation-authority-safety-infractions/?utm_source=The+Nanfang+Newsletter&utm_campaign=17fca3bb3c-Nanfang_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7c49f770a9-17fca3bb3c-214472185&mc_cid=17fca3bb3c&mc_eid=c6e2e52507

Link to above

That was an interesting read.

[B1TcoinLife]

Thst airline would be shut down years ago in any "real" country where safety is a consideration...

Although the tickets are usually cheap....

[simon43]

The front left wheel was found to be missing on an Oriental Thai Airlines flight on April 11..

Minor details... nothing to concern yourself with

[Searat7]

Probably one of their ancient 747's if this happened in China....pretty big plane to land with one front wheel.

[Crossy]

Probably one of their ancient 747's if this happened in China....pretty big plane to land with one front wheel.

It was a 737-300 http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/577500-missing-nose-wheel-discovered-orient-thai-b733-after-landing.html

And the airline is Orient Thai.

[pgrahmm]

The front left wheel was found to be missing on an Oriental Thai Airlines flight on April 11..

Minor details... nothing to concern yourself with

Only if you plan on being on the ground - fly's just fine.....

[baneko]

Flew OT to Phuket once...it was an old smelly plane with arabic writing on the signs...I wouldnt use them again....too many other cheap options with newer aircraft.

[scorecard]

Flew OT to Phuket once...it was an old smelly plane with arabic writing on the signs...I wouldnt use them again....too many other cheap options with newer aircraft.

Flew once on OT from U Tapao to Don Muang in the very early days of starting OT.

Aircraft was lined up on the runway ready for take off then suddenly it moved slowly to next side road and stopped. After maybe 30 minutes a pick up truck arrives alongside the aircraft with 1 passenger and about 20 giant size multi coloured plastic/canvas bags totally full with clothing plus mobile stairs.

Cabin crew open the front boarding door, ground staff slowly carry all 20 heavy giant bags up the mobile stairs and forced through the open door into the cabin, some squeezed into the gap between the seats and some straddling the tops of rows of seats. Then the 1 mid-aged female passenger boards and sits down.

All passenger object strongly, pilot comes out to cabin area and makes it clear that bags will not be offloaded but asks many passengers to move further back in the aircraft obviously for weight balancing, goes back to the cabin and the aircraft takes off.

Overall 60 minutes late departure, flight lands OK at Don Muang but it takes maybe 40 / 50 minutes for enough big bags to be removed so passengers can deplane.

A day or so later it's in the newspapers, OT fined a very large amount of money.