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Nok Air is moving a crane to lift the disabled aircraft back onto the runway with passengers on Wednesday's flights being advised that they will be bused to and from Nakhon Si Thammarat instead.
Original Report
PHUKET: A Nok Air flight failed to take off and skidded into grass at Trang airport, south of Phuket, this evening.
The 142 people on board DD7411 bound for Don Muang in Bangkok disembarked safely.
It was raining and blowing a gale and the runway was covered in water at the time of the aborted takeoff, officials said.
It was the second mishap in southern Thailand within a week.
On July 31, an Orient Thai charter flight from Guiyang in China to Phuket experienced engine trouble and decided the weather was too bad to attempt a landing at Phuket International Airport.
In landing in better conditions at Sutan Thani, the aircraft rolled off the tarmac surface and burst a tyre.
An Air Berlin Airbus 330-200 was involved in an airport emergency on Phuket in December when an engine failed on takeoff.
On September 16, 2007, a One-Two-Go flight from Bangkok crashed on landing on Phuket, killing 90 passengers and crew. There were 40 survivors.
Nok Air is extremely popular out of Phuket because its flights are usually competitively priced.
Congrats to the crew for keeping everything together. Shaken not stirred. Any take off or landing you survive is a good one. Well done crew.
Posted by Robin on August 6, 2013 21:58