Its Main Base is Suvarnabhumi Airport
On 21 November 1990, a de Havilland Canada DHC-8-103 operating as Bangkok Airways Flight 125 crashed on Koh Samui while attempting to land in heavy rain and high winds. All 38 people on board perished. The 68 passengers were evacuated. On 4 August 2009, Bangkok Airways Flight 266, operated by an ATR 72 between Krabi and Koh Samui, skidded off the runway, killing one of the pilots. The airport was closed for two days. There were no injuries. In August 2002 an ATR 72-200 skidded off the runway while landing at Siem Reap International Airport. Of the passengers evacuated, six sustained serious injuries while another four were treated for minor injuries.
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The airline was established in 1968 as Sahakol Air, operating air taxi services under contract from the Overseas International Construction Company (OICC), an American construction company, the United States Operations Mission (USOM), and a number of other organisations engaged in oil and natural gas exploration in the Gulf of Thailand. It began scheduled services in 1986, becoming Thailand’s first privately owned domestic airline. It rebranded to become Bangkok Airways in 1989. The airline is owned by Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth (92.31 percent), Sahakol Estate (4.3 percent), Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (1.2 percent), and other shareholders (2.19 percent). At one point, it also wholly owned subsidiary airline Siem Reap Airways in Cambodia.
Bangkok Airways Public Co.,Ltd. บางกอกแอร์ฯ” ชนหอบังคับการบินเก่าสมุย กัปตันเสียชีวิต-ลูกเรือพร้อมผู้โดยสารรอด”. Shearing, Caroline (5 August 2009). “Koh Samui airport reopens after plane crash”. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0; additional terms may apply. This page was last edited on 13 January 2023, at 15:20 (UTC). By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. The Daily Telegraph. London.