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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.
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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.
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All is not lost...
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...
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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:
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:
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
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:
Last edited by alainthailande; 2nd Nov 2011 at 07:16. Reason: Typos
