Inquiry over faulty parachutes that killed 2 cops going nowhere: Lawyer
By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter


Photos of police cadets Chayakorn Puttachaiyong, left, and Nattawut Tirasuwansuk, right, taken from their Facebook profiles.

BANGKOK — Families of police cadets Nattawut Tirasuwansuk and Chayakorn Puttachaiyong watched in horror as the pair plunged to their deaths during a parachute training exercise that went horribly wrong two years ago.

An investigation later found that officials in charge had the parachute sling discreetly replaced with a cheap knockoff prior to the 2014 training exercise and pocketed the difference, yet the prosecutor still shows no sign of taking them to court, a delay described as “unfair” by the lawyer representing the families of the deceased cadets.

Full Story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/courts/2016/07/08/inquiry-faulty-parachutes-killed-2-cops-going-nowhere-lawyer/


-- Khaosod English 2016-07-08

Anyone really surprised?

With all due respect, the cops must have been going somewhere.

Cause of death. Thainess!

Oh come on. Expecting to hold some 'official' responsible for the result of his actions? That's just silly, this is Thailand where no one takes responsibility.

Trust me, we are Thai!

According to investigators, all 11 defendants were ordered to supply and fit a police training plane with a foreign-made 99,000 baht parachute cable. Instead, they allegedly installed a 9,300-baht sling made by a Thai company, which was not designed to fit the police aircraft, and embezzled the rest of the budget.

Welcome to Thailand, where money is first, and safety is last. (Scratch that, corrected to say) not even on the list.

Edited July 8, 201610 yr by TallGuyJohninBKK

Corruption kills,there seems to be nothing here that does

not have an element of corruption in it.

regards worgeordie

Poor guys, and poor families... what a horrible death.

Now, isn't there a video, maybe shot with a mobile phone? If that was posted and got clicks, as macabre as it must be, surely the s**t would hit the fan very quickly.

Disgusting, but not surprising in a country were money comes first, safety and lives come last.

Disgusting, but not surprising in a country were money comes first, safety and lives come last.

Now, please be so kind to name a country where money is not coming first.

Be it, that here and there money grabbing is slightly hindered by laws protecting lives, more or less,and safety comes, ehhhh, kind of first?

Of course, all those laws are trampled if there is not enough control.

Disgusting, but not surprising in a country were money comes first, safety and lives come last.

Your comment should have ended after, "money comes first"- - safety and lives are superfluous to the discussion.

Where is the PM and article 44 when it is needed?

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This case should be a litmus test of the Junta's seriousness in tackling corruption. If the news media can report the specific details of amounts and circumstances, the evidence in the case must be damning, otherwise they would be opening themselves to a defamation counter claim, which is why the defendants are not named.

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....so in other words....some people are getting away with murder then....???

...driven by their greed....???

This case should be a litmus test of the Junta's seriousness in tackling corruption. If the news media can report the specific details of amounts and circumstances, the evidence in the case must be damning, otherwise they would be opening themselves to a defamation counter claim, which is why the defendants are not named.

"This case should be a litmus test of the Junta's seriousness in tackling corruption."

It is, and they failed miserably.

might be mentioned in another couple years but probably not. there will always be more situations coming along like this where corruption causes loss of life to make us forget. army or who ever else is in power does not really care, maybe they would if there was some better footage of it going around on facebook.. sure the baddies in this case had to spend alot more than the pocketed savings on the cheap gear to buy their way out of trouble. would have been good if that money was paid to the families of the deceased as some sort of compensation but of course this does not look likely unless they are bought to justice. i will tell my son to throw away his thai passport if he is drafted to do military service in thailand. hope conscription is gone by the time he is of age. if the economy continues to decline i suspect there will be more men volunteering for the army as employment.

Edited July 9, 20169 yr by williamgeorgeallen

They were no doubt taught emergency drills?

Anyone really surprised?

No. And my guess is that the case will be dropped too. Very sad.

They were no doubt taught emergency drills?

Everybody going for a basic drop is required to know the emergency drill, the trouble is, when the jumper panics and just grabs the risers or forgets their drills they only have less than half a minute to get their act together!

Panic = death!

might be mentioned in another couple years but probably not. there will always be more situations coming along like this where corruption causes loss of life to make us forget. army or who ever else is in power does not really care, maybe they would if there was some better footage of it going around on facebook.. sure the baddies in this case had to spend alot more than the pocketed savings on the cheap gear to buy their way out of trouble. would have been good if that money was paid to the families of the deceased as some sort of compensation but of course this does not look likely unless they are bought to justice. i will tell my son to throw away his thai passport if he is drafted to do military service in thailand. hope conscription is gone by the time he is of age. if the economy continues to decline i suspect there will be more men volunteering for the army as employment.

Don't count on the conscription to end in a short while,...It gives a lot of unpayed labor,..the officers have them cleaning there houses and cars, maintaining gardens, cooking food and help the wife with the groceries, the army even has businesses staffed by conscripts , Hotels, Golf Courses, Restaurants, petrol stations, etc....

Best regards.

Well I am confident that if prosecutors wait long enough that a statue of limitations will be reached and that will solve the conundrum of having to determine guilt among the guiltless class.

It was not the parachutes that failed, it was the cable which runs down the length of the 'plane - the so-called "Hard Point" - onto which the Jumpers attach a metal fitting at the "loose end" of their Static Lines, the other end is attached to the parachute in the backpack. When the Trainee jumps from the 'plane the Static Line tightens and pulls the parachute from the backpack, opening it.

In this "accident" that did not happen because the cable in the 'plane broke or became detached and the Static Line simply slipped off and followed the Jumper out of the 'plane.

This was a training jump probably at quite low altitude and although the Jumpers had Reserve parachutes they would have only a few seconds to realise that their Main parachute had not opened and they then had to deploy the Reserve in time to land safely. Inexperienced Jumpers would spend a lot of that time in disbelief, then panic and all training - such as it was - would be forgotten.

Patrick

It was not the parachutes that failed, it was the cable which runs down the length of the 'plane - the so-called "Hard Point" - onto which the Jumpers attach a metal fitting at the "loose end" of their Static Lines, the other end is attached to the parachute in the backpack. When the Trainee jumps from the 'plane the Static Line tightens and pulls the parachute from the backpack, opening it.

In this "accident" that did not happen because the cable in the 'plane broke or became detached and the Static Line simply slipped off and followed the Jumper out of the 'plane.

This was a training jump probably at quite low altitude and although the Jumpers had Reserve parachutes they would have only a few seconds to realise that their Main parachute had not opened and they then had to deploy the Reserve in time to land safely. Inexperienced Jumpers would spend a lot of that time in disbelief, then panic and all training - such as it was - would be forgotten.

Patrick

What altitude do students exit aircraft in Thailand?

Edited July 12, 20169 yr by roo860