And the spray paint was out quickly!
Last night a Thai Air Airbus A330-300 suffered a nose wheel collapse and skidded off a run way at Bangkok’s main Suvarnabhumi Airport BKK in Thailand.
The pictures going out on the news wires look like this:
Hmmm. Or this:
Notice anything?
Nope, that’s not photoshop, someone has gone out to the plane since the crash and spray painted over the Thai Airways logo on the fuselage and the tail.
Of course twitter is full of contemporary pictures taken by evacuated passengers.
https://twitter.com/MalengSaab/status/376777639865757696
https://twitter.com/MalengSaab/status/376777400144506880
https://twitter.com/karelxwb/status/376781935118254080
At this time of year there are tons of Israelis in Thailand (half my family are there now) but not too many on a flight from China I wouldn’t have thought. I only found this interesting for the speed with which Thai Airways have tried to manage their media exposure and run out to the plane with a can of spray paint!
Nobody was killed, 14 people were injured and taken to hospital but out of 300 that’s pretty good as this will be classed as a major incident (which is why the statistics on air crashes usually show that most events are survivable).
More detail can be found here.
