Thai Army’s Training
Helicopter Crashes, 2 Crew Killed
- Our Bureau
- 10:36 AM, December 14, 2021
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Enstrom 480B
training helicopter
An
Enstrom 480B training helicopter of the Thai Army crashed at the Kaset airstrip
in Nakhon Sawan province on Tuesday killing two crew members.
The
helicopter was among several such machines that were on a training mission.
The
army has set up a committee to investigate the crash, which killed both
crewmen, in Muang district of Nakhon Sawan province on Tuesday morning, Thai
media reported.
Deputy
spokeswoman Col Sirichan Ngathong was quoted as saying on Tuesday afternoon
that the investigators had already arrived at the crash site.
Col
Sirichan said a group of helicopters had departed the Army Aviation Centre in
Lop Buri on a training flight to Nakhon Sawan.
As they went to land at the Kaset airstrip, one of
them crashed, killing the flying instructor, Lt Col Panpong Banchongplian, and
trainee Cpl Chanakorn Piamcharoen.
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