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Thai Airways International Boeing 737-4D7 plane crash

Bangkok, Thailand
Thai Airways International Boeing 737-4D7 plane crash - Bangkok, Thailand

Key facts

Airline
Thai Airways International
Aircraft
Boeing 737-4D7
Location
Bangkok, Thailand
Date
3rd March, 2001
People on board
8
Fatality
1

Accident account

The plane was scheduled for a passenger flight from Bangkok's Don Muang International Airport to the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai. Approximately 27 minutes before its scheduled departure time, fire broke out aboard. The fire was extinguished within an hour. Traces of C-4, a powerful explosive, were found in the wreckage, but it is unclear whether these traces were related to the explosion aboard the aircraft.

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