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Subject: Re: Plane crashes @ Phuket Airport Posted on: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:14:52 +0100


On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:05:20 +0200 'Mxsmanic'
posted stuff on rec.travel.air:

>zonedout writes:
>
>> Afaik the weather was very changeable and subject to sudden heavy
>> storm conditions. Within an hour or so, it had stopped raining.
>
>That doesn't change the fact that you don't try to land in in storm. There
>are lots of places in the world with changeable weather. If the weather is
>bad when you arrive, you wait or you divert, but you don't land.

Sure, I think ultimately the pilot will carry the can, depending on
the options open to him. Afaik the alternative was Krabi and that
too may have been subject to a sudden rainstorm. Going back to
Bangkok may not have been an option if he didn't have enough fuel.

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