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Nok Air Skidded Off The Runway
7th Oct 2013
Nok Air flight DD8610 was about to land when its landing gear malfunctioned and skidded off the runway at Udon Thani Airport.
The recent incident was the second for the budget airline which also met similar incident at Trang Airport on August 7 this year. Overall, this is the third successive accident this year for Thai Airways International following last month's accident involving THAI plane from Guangzhou, China that skidded off the runway at Suvarnabhumi Airport upon landing. Nok Air is a budget airline and a subsidiary of Thai Airways International.
None of the 26 passengers and crew were injured.
Narong Ponlaiard, the Vice Governor of Udon Thani, immediately rushed to the scene. An airline official met him there and briefed about the incident which was attributed to mechanical failure of the landing gear.
The airline official said that the pilot missed to turn the aircraft to the right on the taxiway after it touched down the runway. It was reported that the front wheels of the aircraft collapsed and the pilot decided to ram the earthen wall instead to avert possible serious damage to both the aircraft and the people in it. The passenger terminal was just 600 meters from the location of the accident.
The Nok Air flight took off from Chiang Mai at 7:25am bound for Udon Thani.
The August 7 incident by the same airline involved a Bangkok-bound flight DD7411 when it was preparing to take off the runway at Trang Airport when its landing gear failed to work. Fortunately enough, all of the 142 passengers, who were mostly foreign tourists, was unhurt.
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