Air Tragedy in Thailand

[Crispy123]

Here is the AP story. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070916/ap_on_re_as/thailand_plane_crash)

Any time you here the term budget airline it's not good. 87 dead so far. The airplane was a Boeing MD-82. (http://www.boeing.com/commercial/md-80-90/index.html) Weather and maybe pilot error are being described as the main culprits at this point. This sucks but at least there were some survivors and it isn't being called "terror" related. Maybe Yerdaddy would have some more details?

[Doctor Z]

Phucket.

[TheMojoPin]

Hmmm, creepy. I used to fly down to Phucket all the time.

And for the record, it's pronounced "poo-ket," you filthy animals.

[Bulldogcakes]

Lets all just hope our buddy Yerdaddy wasn't on it.

[scottinnj]

Lets all just hope our buddy Yerdaddy wasn't on it.

QFT and praying............

[scottinnj]

"I saw passengers engulfed in fire as I stepped over them on way out of the plane," Parinwit Chusaeng, a survivor who suffered minor burns, told the Nation television channel. "I was afraid that the airplane was going to explode so I ran away."

Must be absolutely horrifying.

[Yerdaddy]

Thailand is the most dangerous country I've ever been to. I just found out that an American woman I interviewed for a story in Sangklaburi last month was murdered by her American boyfriend. They were both volunteering there and I always saw him drunker than 500 Indians and droning on about how his wife left him a few years back and he expressed alot of anger at women. I suspected he was on a countdown to suicide but never thought he'd poison his GF and then slit her throat and chest open, but he did.

That's all I got. I'm safe and sound in Cambodia, trying to get demining orgs to let me poke around in the sand for mines with a rusty bayonette and some cheap sunglasses.

[TheMojoPin]

Thailand is the most dangerous country I've ever been to. I just found out that an American woman I interviewed for a story in Sangklaburi last month was murdered by her American boyfriend. They were both volunteering there and I always saw him drunker than 500 Indians and droning on about how his wife left him a few years back and he expressed alot of anger at women. I suspected he was on a countdown to suicide but never thought he'd poison his GF and then slit her throat and chest open, but he did.

That's all I got. I'm safe and sound in Cambodia, trying to get demining orgs to let me poke around in the sand for mines with a rusty bayonette and some cheap sunglasses.

Personally, I found Thailand to be what felt like the safest country I had ever lived in or visited overseas. I really don't see how the story of this poor American woman being killed by her gozno American boyfriend is really reflective of Thailand being dangerous.

[Yerdaddy]

Personally, I found Thailand to be what felt like the safest country I had ever lived in or visited overseas. I really don't see how the story of this poor American woman being killed by her gozno American boyfriend is really reflective of Thailand being dangerous.

Just one random example - that happened to be on my mind - of the million ways to die in Thailand. A buddy of mine was in a bus crash that killed a guy and broke the neck of a tourist and the back of another. Another buddy's Thai girlfriend showed me mobile phone camera video of a couple that washed up dead on Penyang. I've heard dozens of stories of rapes, shootings, stabbings and drownings at the Full Moon Parties. Heard of a dive accident drowning while i was there. What else? Tons of drunken scooter accidents. A buddy of mine almost killed a drunk when he thought he knocked my buddy's girlfriend's tooth out - she just fell. It's just tons more shit than I've ever heard anywhere since DC. Maybe even more dangerous than DC.

[TheMojoPin]

Just one random example - that happened to be on my mind - of the million ways to die in Thailand. A buddy of mine was in a bus crash that killed a guy and broke the neck of a tourist and the back of another. Another buddy's Thai girlfriend showed me mobile phone camera video of a couple that washed up dead on Penyang. I've heard dozens of stories of rapes, shootings, stabbings and drownings at the Full Moon Parties. Heard of a dive accident drowning while i was there. What else? Tons of drunken scooter accidents. A buddy of mine almost killed a drunk when he thought he knocked my buddy's girlfriend's tooth out - she just fell. It's just tons more shit than I've ever heard anywhere since DC. Maybe even more dangerous than DC.

Well, I thought you were only talking in terms of violent crime like you brought up in your first post, not accidental stuff like bus crashes and toursist drowning and the like. And I'd still walk the streets of the major Thai cities in the middle of the night a thousand times (hell, I probably did) before I go parading through about 75% of DC at any time of the day or night. Now, once you get out of the Thai urban areas...well, sky is the limit. But the cities? Sound as a pound.

[A.J.]

Personally, I found Thailand to be what felt like the safest country I had ever lived in or visited overseas.

It's not so safe for Thai Prime Ministers. The military tends to depose them.