Trang Airport closed after Nok Air flight slides off runway
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Low-cost airline flights from Trang Airport were cancelled on Wednesday and many passengers had their tickets refunded, after a Bangkok-bound Nok Air flight slid off the runway at Trang airport while preparing for takeoff in heavy rain late on Tuesday aft
All 142 passengers on Flight DD 7411, many of them foreign tourists, and crew were uninjured.
Trang Airport was closed as officials prepared buses to move some 100 passengers on another Nok Air DD 7401 Flight (Trang to Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport), to board a flight at Nakhon Si Thammarat Airport.
Another 100 passengers on the Air Asia Flight FD3242 (Trang to Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport) were taken to Krabi Airport. Many passengers, including singer Weerayut “Baowee Rsiam” Nancha, refunded their tickets or changed travel dates.
Another 100 passengers on the Air Asia Flight FD3242 (Trang to Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport) were taken to Krabi Airport. Many passengers, including singer Weerayut “Baowee Rsiam” Nancha, refunded their tickets or changed travel dates.
The runway-clearing mission was on hold pending the arrival of THAIS experts and equipment from Bangkok at Trang at midnight to help move the crashed plane which is stuck in sand, said Thaworn Saengampai, director of the Trang Airport.
