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Thailand: five Phuket Air YS-11 grounded for safety reasons

Bangkok, Thailand - Airline's fleet is made up of secondhand planes

Thailand’s Transport Minister, Pongsak Raktapongpaisal, ordered to ground five NAMC YS-11 planes belonging to Phuket Air carrier. Two days before, one of them skidded off a runway in a Northern airport while was attempting to land in storm weather conditions -the 24 passengers emerged safe-, while the carrier had financial problems and troubles threatening its flight safety in the last months: its a...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 126801
Rome, Italy, 09/13/2005 17:17
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