Are there credible authorities in Thailand?
 

Are there a credible authorities in Thailand?
I ask the question seriously. Names and contact information appreciated.

Time for protests
 

I.U.,
No I do not think there are credible authorities in T land....
The ONLY way to change things is for outside pressure, If the US FAA is failing to accurately rate Thai aviation then there is a last resort. Protests
I posted this before and it was removed, perhaps Mod will allow re post.
The day that 1-2 Go resumes flying to HKT I will protest at the airport at time of its landing .
It would be nice to have some company , or others at Bangkok or Chang Mai airports.



Fly Thai..and Die !! or
One-Two...Die !!

Letter Ed. Printed
 

Well, At least The Nation printed my letter...As did the Phukette Gazette

Sometimes wishing for the Stars gets you the Moon.
If we call for arrest and prosecution of Thai DCA Officials.. maybe they'll roll on Udom..Maybe

Have to admit after watching Air Crash Investigation last night on the Alaskan Air deliberate mismanagement on maintenance causing the crash in 2000 , not greasing the screw in the tail controlling flight surfaces - no arrests were made then , either.
Is the US FAA corrupt or just incompetent, too?


Bangkok's Independent Newspaper


<<<<<<Aviation authorities negligent in restoring licences

I am in utter disbelief that the Thai aviation authorities are even considering the return of One-Two Go/Orient-Thai's operating certificates after grounding the airline, following the Phuket disaster, for disregarding safety regulations.

The airline's executives should be arrested and indicted for the murder of those passengers. And perhaps the head of the Thai aviation authorities, too.

Tourists beware: none of these censures would have come about had it not been for an American woman exposing mismanagement and oversight that the Thai authorities could no longer ignore.

I urge anyone who may be flying within Thailand to read (at www.InvestigateUdom.com) the astounding list of accusations about the authorities' apparent inability to properly regulate the airline industry.

The US FAA is being lobbied aggressively to downgrade Thailand's safety rating. Failing that, the US congress will be petitioned to stop funding the FAA rating programme as an utter waste of taxpayers' money.

CHRISTY K SWEET >>>>>>

Still Grounded
 

From today's Bangkok Post

And of course, the whitewash brush is out again. The foreign devils are the cause of all problems.

and

I wonder if the NTSB report came to the same conclusion?

Orient Thai flying the MD-80s without AOC?
 

Credible reports that Orient Thai is flying the One-Two-Go MD-80s while the AOC is still revoked, while using an Orient Thai call sign. (BKK is showing the departures as 747s.)

If you've seen this or have a picture or log of such an event, please contact [email protected].

My sincerest thanks.

One of their MDs was at HKG yesterday. No idea of the callsign or flight number.

All those calling for Udom's airlines to be permanently grounded are pi**ing into a typhoon...it will do little good.
The fix is in....unless of course another deadly crash occurs.

Then....maybe.

OG MD-82 test fligh test at DMK
 

MD-82 HS-OMH has been reported as test flying at Don Muang during September.

Test flights don't take passengers to and from HKG.

Flying the MD's to HKG
 

As far as I know none of the MDs are fitted with life rafts only inflatable slides so it would be illegal to by flying them to HKG.

You could not be more wrong.

Forget the life rafts.
Flying for any reason without a AOC or suspended AOC is not allowed anywhere.
How did they even get a flight plan for this????
You are all barking up the wrong tree here.
This is not even allowed in Darkest Africa.
If this is true someone should notify the insurance company, sure they would want to hear this.
And what idiots operated this flight knowing this!

I think you may be over reacting a little bit Earl....

Just because one of their a/c was up in HKG does not mean they are flying without an AOC etc..

It could be on lease, test flight, been sold, ferry flight etc etc etc ...

True, could have been sold.

These are Orient Thai commercial flights that are substituting the use of the MD80s for the 747s.
Udom's still in charge. (Since we made Cho's letter public, he's been fired.)

Cho whereabouts
 

I thought I'd read Cho is American.. Is he in Thailand or America?

Has been proven?

FrequentSLF
 

There you are - up front - left hand seat - taxiing out and behind you is an MD80 in 1-2-Go livery but responding to ATC with an Orient Thai callsign.
What do you think? - really? - What do you actually make of that? - Sheesh!!

I was just asking...

I seen various reasons why the aircraft was there (as posted by anartificialhorizon). And I repeat my question "it has been proven?". I can hardly believe that HKG will let a flight take off o land with out AOC... that's why I am asking...but seems that raising questions on this thread is not allowed

It's irrelevant. Orient Thai - including but not limited to One-Two-Go - had the AOC revoked for the MD-80s. See the DCA order. Neither Orient Thai nor One-Two-Go can legally fly those airplanes.

I'll make two quick forecasts here:

1. The DCA will suddenly announce the Orient Thai had been given back their AOC before these flights (about 2 weeks ago.) Trouble is, that will contradict an interview Witichai gave to the Bangkok post on Oct 15. So they'll have to come up with a more creative creation.
2. Eventually, all blame for the crash will be put on Cho Ting Tsang. He's the American. He can be cut lose. You can see that happening in the interview above where foreigners are blamed. Eventually, Udom and Witichai will make a move to try to pin the entire blame on Cho.

Christy: Cho is naturalized American. He worked for Orient Thai/One-Two-Go in the US and in Thailand, traveling between the countries.