Bangkok Airways Flight 266
An ATR 72 of Bangkok Airways
|
|
| Runway Overrun summary | |
|---|---|
| Date | 4 August 2009 |
| Summary | Runway overrun |
| Passengers | 68 |
| Crew | 4 |
| Injuries (non-fatal) | 41 |
| Fatalities | 1 (pilot) |
| Survivors | 71 |
| Aircraft type | ATR 72-212A |
| Aircraft name | Pha Ngan |
| Operator | Bangkok Airways |
| Registration | HS-PGL |
| Flight origin | Krabi Airport, Thailand |
| Destination | Samui Airport, Thailand |
Bangkok Airways Flight 266 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight to Samui Airport, Thailand, which overran the runway on landing and crashed into an old and unmanned control tower on 4 August 2009.
Aircraft
The aircraft involved was an ATR 72-212A, registration HS-PGL,[1] msn 670. The aircraft made its first flight on 6 June 2001 with French registration F-WWER. It entered service with Bangkok Airways on 16 July 2001 re-registered HS-PGL. On 29 May 2006, it entered service with Siem Reap Airways International, returning to Bangkok Airways on 7 January 2009 after Siem Reap Airways International ceased trading. The aircraft was named Pha Ngan,[2] and has been in service for approx. 20,000 hrs.[citation needed]
Accident
The aircraft is reported to have skidded off the runway and hit an old and unmanned control tower which was used as a fire-fighting station. The accident happened at around 14:15 local time (07:15 UTC).[3] One pilot was reported to have been killed. The co-pilot, who was stuck in the aircraft for more than two hours, was among the last evacuated from the stricken plane. Serious injuries included four passengers – two Britons, one Italian and one Swiss suffered broken legs, while two other Britons suffered less severe injuries. The co-pilot also had leg injuries. A total of 41 people were injured.[4] The METAR in force at the time of the accident was METAR VTSM 040700Z 29015KT 9000 FEW020TCU SCT120 BKN300 31/25 Q1007 A2974 TCU-NW.[5] This translates as METAR for Samui Airport, issued on the 4th of the month at 07:00 UTC, wind at 15 knots, direction 290° visibility 9 km, few clouds at 2,000 ft, scattered clouds at 12,000 ft, broken clouds at 30,000 ft, temperature 31 °C, dewpoint 25 °C, altimeter 1007 millibars or 29.74 inches, towering cumulonimbus to north west.[6]
The fuselage of the aircraft spent a few years on roadsides in different parts of Samui before being sunk in October 2013 as part of Majcha Air Samui Artificial Reef Project.
See also
- Air France Flight 358 – another aircraft that had overrun a runway in Toronto, Canada four years earlier.
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
| External images | |
|---|---|
 airliners.net's Photo gallery |
|
| myaviation.net's Photo gallery |
|
| Rolling on runway |
|
| Photo of the accident |
- Accident description at the Aviation Safety Network
- Accident in Samui on Tuesday 4 August 2009 Press Release – Bangkok Airways
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Use dmy dates from July 2014
- Articles with unsourced statements from August 2009
- Pages with broken file links
- 2009 in Thailand
- Airlines of Thailand accidents and incidents
- Accidents and incidents involving the ATR 72
- Airliner accidents and incidents involving runway overruns
- Aviation accidents and incidents in 2009
- Aviation accidents and incidents in Thailand
- Surat Thani Province
