Thai lost a series of 2 Black Hawks Down at enemy border fear Maj Gen CCS killed

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Yingluck Shinawatra CB is a jinx for Thailand?

Already 5 killed in the 1st Black Hawk Down, 2nd with 9 when down while recovering bodies of the 1st 5.

Exactly same ass luck like Clinton at Somalia.

BLACK HAWK DOWN!@ Burma Border. Junta Shot them?

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Nine feared lost in second helicopter crash
By Anan Kongcharoen,
Kampanart Kantrakul
The Nation
Phetchaburi
Published on July 20, 2011

Contact was lost yesterday with an Army Black Hawk helicopter flying sorties as it prepared to evacuate the bodies of five Army personnel killed in the crash of another chopper on July 11 near the Thai-Burma border. The Black Hawk that disappeared yesterday had nine, including VIP passengers, on board.

In addition to four crew members, the five passengers were the commander of the elite 9th Infantry Division, Maj-General Tawan Ruengsri, the chief of the evacuation operation, and Channel 5 cameraman Sornchai Khongtannukool, along with two captains.

Speaking to the media late last night, the commander of the First Army Area, Lt-General Udomdej Sritabutr, said the incident was very likely a crash, possibly a direct hit on the ground or into a hillside as a result of poor visibility due to bad weather.

First Army Area spokesman Colonel Thammanoon Withee came up later with possible good news, saying that Thai search parties had met up with Burmese soldiers who gave vague and unconfirmed details about "the Black Hawk possibly not crashing, but making an emergency landing somewhere". No further details were available at press time last night.

Udomdej grounded all helicopter flights, and ordered ground search parties to approach the probable site of the crash on foot. They could spend up to five days to reach map grid NQ243118, near Mai Daeng Mountain in Phetchaburi's Kaeng Krachan district, where the Black Hawk lost radio contact.

He confirmed the loud bang, which he said sounded like the Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk hitting the ground or a hillside, "similar to the sound heard in the UH-1H helicopter crash" last week. He dismissed a theory about the loud bang being hostile ground fire.

"As long as we have not seen the bodies [of all nine people on board the Black Hawk], I still have hopes of some of them surviving, and am saying prayers that some of them make it," he said.

Speaking before taking the second flight yesterday morning, Tawan vowed to bring home all five bodies, as he had promised personally to their relatives.

He recounted a similar horror his unit faced several years ago, when the commander, along with members of his staff, were all killed in a helicopter crash, also along Thai-Burmese border.

Speaking in an interview before piloting the flight, first pilot Major Praphan Jiamsoongnern said Tawan had carefully planned the evacuation, by using two smaller helicopters to fly through breaks in the clouds to get to Ton Nam Phet base where the bodies are.

The other plan was to have the Black Hawk hover over the Tanao Sri mountain range above the fog, then go directly to the base when the sky was clearer. A cloud-seeding operation was also prepared to draw away fog and clouds over the area, Praphan said, but it had not been used by the time the Black Hawk disappeared.

The three other crewmembers are second pilot Major Choophan Phollawan and mechanics Sgt-Major Somkhid Wongtasaeng and Sergeant Aram Phongsing. The other three passengers are Captains Jes Sukjai and Jakkraphan Bamrungphuet and Sergeant Itthisak Hinasut.

 

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Maj-General Tawan Reungsri, right, who is among the nine people on board the missing Black Hawk that went to recover five bodies of Saturday's helicopter crash in Phetchaburi,...

 

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Five officers dead in helicopter crash in Thai national park

[17.07.2011 10:26]
Five officers dead in helicopter crash in Thai national park

Five army officers were killed when their military helicopter crashed in western Thailand, an official said Sunday, dpa reported.

The helicopter came down in mountainous terrain in Kaeng Krachen National Park near the Myanmar border in bad weather on Saturday, Lieutenant General Udomdej Sitabutr said.

The helicopter was on its way to pick up officials dispatched to the country's largest national park on July 11 to arrest suspected illegal loggers.

Soldiers had been sent to recover the bodies, the military said.

 

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Thai helicopter crashes attempting to retrieve bodies from previous chopper crash

From: AFP
July 20, 2011 3:59PM

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A THAI army helicopter has crashed near the Thai-Burma border, as its nine passengers prepared to retrieve five bodies from the wreckage of a chopper that crashed in the same location last week.

The Nation newspaper said the nine passengers included army officials and a television cameraman. It reported the aircraft had crashed in Burma about two kilometres over the border.

Thai Lieutenant General Udomdet Seetabut told the Bangkok Post the helicopter was a brand new UH-60 Black Hawk and that its pilots lost contact with fellow soldiers at around 11am yesterday.

Soldiers waiting on the ground with the bodies of the five soldiers killed in Saturday's crash heard a loud explosion shortly after they saw the Black Hawk plummet from the sky.

The Thai army was unable to confirm whether any of the nine passengers on the Black Hawk had survived the crash, The Bangkok Post reported.

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Thai army spokesman Colonel Sunsern Kaewkumnerd told AFP that a search operation began this morning with soldiers approaching the area on foot.

Read more about chopper crashes trying to retrieve bodies at the Bangkok Post.

 

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Thai and Burmese Troops Search For Helicopter Survivors
By SAW YAN NAING Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Maj-Gen Tawan Reungsri (right) who was among the nine on board the missing Black Hawk that went to recover five bodies of Saturday's helicopter crash in Phetchaburi. (Photo: The Nation)
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The Thai Army is cooperating with Burmese government forces in searching for possible survivors from the second military helicopter crash near the Thai-Burmese border on Tuesday.

According to Thai News Agency (TNA), some 100 soldiers started a jungle march to locate nine Thai troopers who were on board the Black Hawk that lost contact and crashed while flying to retrieve the bodies of Saturday's five helicopter crash victims in Kaeng Krachan National Park, Phetchaburi.

Thai Army spokesman Col Sansern Kaewkamnerd told TNA that it could not be confirmed that the chopper had crashed on Burmese soil, but the incident was likely to have occurred near the Thai-Burmese border.

Thai military sources blame bad weather as the cause behind the accident. Heavy rain and strong winds apparently caused the aircraft to lose stability and crash into the mountain.

Thai journalists reported that some pieces of the Black Hawk helicopter went down on Burmese soil, while others say that it was found on the Thai side. The first helicopter flew over the forest as illegal logging was reported near the border. The Burmese side of the border near the accident site falls within Tenessarim Division.

Meanwhile, the Bangkok Post reported on Wednesday that Burmese soldiers immediately identified the spot where the second Black Hawk went down and reported the location to the Thai military.

The crash site was said to be near a Burmese village named Pha Mai Daeng, around one kilometer from the Thai border. However, the Burmese soldiers did not mention the fate of the passengers on board the crashed Black Hawk, the report said.

On Wednesday, reports emerged that the bodies of the five soldiers who were killed in the first helicopter crash had already been airlifted out of the area.

On Aug. 28, 1997, there was an incident of a Thai Army Jet Ranger helicopter which was apparently shot down by Burmese government troops, according to Burmese dissidents and news agencies.

The helicopter was flying during bad weather over a small piece of Burma which juts into Thailand, south of Mae Sot, which was a former headquarters of the Karen National Union. Four Thai soldiers including two pilots died in the crash. Thai military sources only confirmed that the plane went down in bad weather.

However, Burmese rebels claimed that the plane was shot down by troops from the Burmese government under Light Infantry Division 32, led by captains Thein Lwin and Kyaw San at that time. Automatic rifles and machine guns were apparently used.

However, Thai officers denied the helicopter was shot down because it was flying beyond the range of ground fire.

The Burmese government did not cooperate with the Thai Army in trying to recover the helicopter and victims' bodies. Thai military personnel were only allowed to conduct a land search for the helicopter after Sept. 15, 1997, and some sources suspect that Burmese troops had already destroyed the helicopter and disposed of the dead soldiers by this time.

It was reported that rebel units at the border had intercepted this information via Burmese Army radio transmissions.

However, Thai authorities, particularly the Defence and Foreign Affairs ministries and security agencies, have not confirmed nor denied the dissidents' statements at that time.