Thai Airways A330 Crash Lands Bangkok Airport

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FlightRadar24 reports that Thai Airways flight #TG679 from Guangzhou, China to Suvarnabhumi Airport BKK in Bangkok, Thailand has crash landed.

The plane, an Airbus A330, is seen on the picture at #BKK with the emergency slides deployed. However, it's unknown what caused the crash landing.

12 passengers are injured. No fatalities reported yet.
Looks like it over ran the runway.

Some pics attached.

Update: A Thai Airways Airbus A330-300, registration HS-TEF performing flight TG-679 from Guangzhou (China) to Bangkok (Thailand) with 301 people on board, landed on Bangkok's runway 19L at about 23:30L (16:30Z) but veered right off the runway and came to a stop with all gear on soft ground, a large plume of dust rose above the aircraft initially creating fears of a crash. The aircraft was evacuated via slides. 12 people received minor injuries in the evacuation, the aircraft received damage to both engines and the nose gear.

Dogwatch

Seems it landed and slid off the runway onto soft ground........http://avherald.com/h?article=4681fccd&opt=1

kona

Hopefully that's #3 of 3.

andy_g

Sounds familiar could of been a similar problem on the nose gear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-Lmfcma0ZI

keith16

They wasted no time in painting over the tail logo

Tenger

keith16 wrote: »

They wasted no time in painting over the tail logo

A bit fecking pointless with such an unique livery....

keith16

Tenger wrote: »

A bit fecking pointless with such an unique livery....

Agreed. Although the instruction came from Star Alliance apparently. They are probably drawing more attention to themselves with this if anything.

BuffyBot

I doubt the painting over is anything to do with the Star Alliance: many airlines have done the same over the years (SAS did the same after SK 751)

http://www.inaviation.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Sas_flight_751_crash.jpg

Other examples

http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1026785/
http://www.airliners.net/photo/1032098/M/

While some might recognise the livery, companies know that the majority of the general public are more likely to remember the logo/name of the airline than a paint job.

L1011

BuffyBot wrote: »

I doubt the painting over is anything to do with the Star Alliance: many airlines have done the same over the years (SAS did the same after SK 751)

SAS are Star also :pac:

(yes, I know its standard practice for pretty much every airline)

BuffyBot

MYOB wrote: »

SAS are Star also :pac:

(yes, I know its standard practice for pretty much every airline)

Not in 1991, when flight 751 crashed, as Star didn't even exist then </pedant>

L1011

Good point.