News: ore 14,00 (Thai) aeroporto di Samui ha ripreso regolarmente le attività.
Writer: BangkokPost.comPublished: 5/08/2009 at 03:03 PM
Samui airport resumed operation on Wednesday afternoon after the debris from the crashed Bangkok Airways plane was cleared from the single runway.
Bangkok Airways' PG 100 was the first flight, leaving Koh Samui at 2pm for a scheduled landing at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport at 3pm.
The airline's first flight to depart for Samui was PG 153, leaving Bangkok at 2pm for arrival on the resort island at 3pm.
A Bangkok Airways statement said there would be 16 flights from Bangkok to Samui, 17 flights from Samui to Bangkok, one flight from Samui to Phuket, one flight from Phuket to Samui, one flight from Uta-pao to Samui and one more flight from Samui to Uta-pao on Wednesday.
There will be two international flights from Samui to Singapore, two flights from Singapore to Samui, one flight from Samui to Hong Kong and one flight from Hong Kong to Samui.
Transport deputy permanent secretary Chaisak Angkasuwan said it would take about a month for investigators to establish the cause of Tuesday's crash on Koh Samui.
Mr Chaisak said bad weather, possible human error or a defective engine part would all have to be taken into consideration. Even then a further investigation would be necessary.
Investigators finished collecting evidence at the site before noon on Wednesday, he said.
He said the full investigation would not take about a year, as in the case of the One-Two-Go air crash at Phuket International Airport two years ago.
The Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee will send the flight recorder, or black box, from the crashed plane to France for decoding because the ATR 72 aircraft was manufactured there, he said.
Meanwhile, the body of the pilot who was killed in the plane crash arrived in Bangkok on Wednesday morning.
The body of chief pilot Chartchai Pansuwan, 58, killed in the crash, was flown to the capital for religious ceremonies on Wednesday morning.
Thanawat Premruedee, the co-pilot who was also injured, was also transferred to Bangkok and admitted to Bangkok Hospital for further treatment.
Dr Chatree Duangnet of Bangkok Hospital said the co-pilot's injuries were severe. He had broken bones, one of which penetrated his lung.
Surgeons would operate on Wednesday night or Thursday morning. He would also get a brain scan to see if everything was functioning normally, he said.
The accident killed the pilot and injured 12 people. Most of the injured were European tourists who had been holidaying in Krabi, also a popular destination.
The crash occured in severe weather and high winds, with the aircraft veering off the runway and crashing into an old control tower.
In mattinanta i passeggeri in partenza dall'isola sono stati dirottati all'aeroporto di Suratthani, molto probabilmente sull'aeroporto di Samui sarà aperta un'inchiesta per valutare le responsabilità.
L'Ansv, Agenzia nazionale per la sicurezza del volo, sta acquisendo informazioni sull'incidente che ha visto coinvolto Atr 72-500 provocando la morte del pilota e ferimento di diverse persone. L'Agenzia, si legge in una nota, intende verificare se sussistano i presupposti previsti dall'allegato 13 alla Convenzione relativa all'aviazione civile internazionale per designare un proprio investigatore in qualità di esperto nell'inchiesta tecnica condotta dalla competente autorità investigativa Thailandese.
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