Date: | Tuesday 4 August 2009 |
Time: | 14:30 |
Type: | ATR 72-212A (ATR 72-500) |
Owner/operator: | Bangkok Airways |
Registration: | HS-PGL |
MSN: | 670 |
Year of manufacture: | 2001 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127F |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 72 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Koh Samui Airport (USM) -
Thailand
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Krabi Airport (KBV/VTSG) |
Destination airport: | Koh Samui Airport (USM/VTSM) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:A Bangkok Airways ATR-72 passenger plane was substantially damaged when it skidded off the runway at Koh Samui. The airplane collided with the airport control tower building.
METAR:
07:00 UTC / 14:00 local time:
VTSM 040700Z 29015KT 9000 FEW020TCU SCT120 BKN300 31/25 Q1007 A2974 TCU-NW=
Wind 290 degrees at 15 knots; few clouds at 2,000 ft; scattered clouds at 12,000 ft; broken clouds at 30,000 ft; Temperature 31 deg C; dew point 25 deg C.; 1007 MB; Towering CB to the Northwest
Sources:
Bangkok Post
Bangkok Airways
Location
Images:
photo (c) kinumi Yoshida; Koh Samui Airport (USM/VTSM); 04 August 2009; (CC:by-nc)
photo (c) kinumi Yoshida; Koh Samui Airport (USM/VTSM); 05 August 2009; (CC:by-nc)
photo (c) kinumi Yoshida; Koh Samui Airport (USM/VTSM); 04 August 2009; (CC:by-nc)
photo (c) kinumi Yoshida; Koh Samui Airport (USM/VTSM); 04 August 2009; (CC:by-nc)
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Bangkok-Don Muang International Airport (BKK/VTBD); January 2004
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