Bangkok Airways Flight 266

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Bangkok Airway Flight 266 (abbreviated PG 266 ) was a scheduled domestic flight of Thai Bangkok Airways, which came off on landing on 4 August 2009 to 14:10 local time clock from the runway and crashed into a tower.

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On landing during heavy rainfall at the airport of Koh Samui, the pilots lost control of the ATR -72- 212A and bounced sideways off the runway against a disused control tower. Due to the force of the impact of the pilot was already working which is 19 for Bangkok Airways and had 14 years of experience with the crashed aircraft, killed and destroyed the aircraft. All other persons on board survived, where 41 people were injured. Five of them, and the two hours jammed co-pilot had to be treated in hospital.

Data and Trivia

• Among the passengers were, among others, Italian, British, Spanish, Swiss, German and four Israelis.
• The aircraft was built in 2001. It has the hallmark HS- PGL and ran with two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127F engines.
• Because of misfortune had two flights " TG 287 " and " TG 288 " Thai Airways are deleted, with more than 200 passengers were affected.