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NutLoose
1st Nov 2011, 12:16
Looking expensive..
http://cdn.spiegel.de/images/image-277892-galleryV9-oysd.jpg
http://cdn.spiegel.de/images/image-277344-galleryV9-mogx.jpg
From
Thailand's Heavy Monsoons: Bangkok Evacuates as Floodwaters Rise - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International (http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,795037,00.html)
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Thailand floods: Bangkok Don Mueang Airport pictures show extent of crisis | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055644/Thailand-floods-Bangkok-Don-Mueang-Airport-pictures-extent-crisis.html)
Dave Gittins
1st Nov 2011, 12:19
Blimey ... it's washed the engines clean off the 74 in the top picture ... expensive indeed.
Rollingthunder
1st Nov 2011, 12:27
They are mostly de-commissioned aircraft - parked long-tem
Dave Gittins
1st Nov 2011, 13:51
Somehow I couldn't see - with all the warnings that have been given - that anybody would leave millions of bucks / quids / bahts in heavy metal just sitting there awaiting its fate.
Those pictures are of junk but both BKP and TG have their maintenance bases at Don Mueang and there are aircraft undergoing maintenance trapped and obviously being quite severely stuffed by this.
Tower Ranger
1st Nov 2011, 15:47
I guess they`ll be using prefered lies on the Golf Course for quite a while now!!
AndyH52
1st Nov 2011, 16:55
I understand from stuff I've read in the Bangkok Post over the last few days that for any aircraft of value at Don Muang steps have been taken to give them some degree of protection. This includes jacking some aircraft up and protecting the undercarriages of others with plastic wrapping. In the main though any serviceable aircraft were flown out about a week ago...
alainthailande
2nd Nov 2011, 07:10
I was there right when the floods started causing the closure of major highways until one week after Don Muang (the domestic airport show in pictures here) was closed.
I sincerely hope that whomever owned the airplanes parked at Don Muang had better quality information than us general public had (including people living around the airport) because the official stance has been that it would not been flooded because of adequate flood walls until ... well, until a couple hours before water came in.
Don Muang has long been used as:
a refugee centre for people evacuated from the most severely flooded areas in the vicinity (e.g. Pathum Thani)
the headquarters of the FROC (Flood Relief Operations Centre)
a place to park cars in an attempt to protect them from floods
(and still is in some ways), which tends to demonstrate that the authorities didn't have much of a clue that it would be eventually flooded (and severely flooded as pictures show).
The same goes for Suwarnabhumi (the international airport). Once again the official word is that it's safe, but it turns out that it's right in the path of water that is being diverted from Bangkok. So despite its behing behind 3.5m high so-called dykes (mostly sandbags)...
This picture isn't bad either:
http://i1110.photobucket.com/albums/h449/PaitOOn1/dm.jpg
Is the Astraeus 737 still afloat there?
alainthailande
6th Nov 2011, 14:28
The situation at Don Muang doesn't seem to be improving...
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg686/scaled.php?tn=0&server=686&filename=weicl.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640
Yes, I know. Old engineless bird. Still.