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Artificial rainmaking teams to join rescue operation for Blackhawk crash
BANGKOK, July 21 (TNA) - Artificial rainmaking teams will join an official rescue mission to search for all nine people on board a Thai army Blackhawk helicopter which, according to official updated reports, crashed on a mountain in Myanmar during an operation on Tuesday morning to retrieve five bodies from a crash site of another Thai army helicopter in Kaeng Krajan National Park of the country's upper southern Petchaburi Province last Saturday.
Panithi Samerwong, chief of a southern artificial rainmaking centre under the Bureau of Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation of the Thai Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, acknowledged that the Royal Thai Army has sought his centre's cooperation in providing artificial rainmaking aircraft and officials to support the rescue mission for the crashed Blackhawk's victims until they are all lifted out from the crash site.
Panithi said he expected that his centre could begin to join the army rescue operation on Friday, under which artificial rain made by his teams would help relieve dense clouds over the Kaeng Krajan National Park bordering Myanmar and adjacent areas to allow other rescue helicopters to land down on the mountain, where the Blackhawk reportedly crashed.
Major General Tawan Ruangsri, Commander of the 9th Infantry Division, two pilots, six other army officers and a cameraman of the military-supervised TV Channel 5 in Bangkok were on board the ill-fated Blackhawk helicopter.
Earlier, an army rescue team successfully retrieved the five bodies from the site of last Saturday's crash in a Kaeng Krajan deep forest Wednesday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Thai Air Force Commander-in-Chief Air Chief Marshal Itthiporn Supawong said that the Royal Thai Air Force has also sent a helicopter and a rescue team to join the Royal Thai Army's rescue mission for the crashed Blackhawk victims. (TNA)
Panithi Samerwong, chief of a southern artificial rainmaking centre under the Bureau of Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation of the Thai Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, acknowledged that the Royal Thai Army has sought his centre's cooperation in providing artificial rainmaking aircraft and officials to support the rescue mission for the crashed Blackhawk's victims until they are all lifted out from the crash site.
Panithi said he expected that his centre could begin to join the army rescue operation on Friday, under which artificial rain made by his teams would help relieve dense clouds over the Kaeng Krajan National Park bordering Myanmar and adjacent areas to allow other rescue helicopters to land down on the mountain, where the Blackhawk reportedly crashed.
Major General Tawan Ruangsri, Commander of the 9th Infantry Division, two pilots, six other army officers and a cameraman of the military-supervised TV Channel 5 in Bangkok were on board the ill-fated Blackhawk helicopter.
Earlier, an army rescue team successfully retrieved the five bodies from the site of last Saturday's crash in a Kaeng Krajan deep forest Wednesday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Thai Air Force Commander-in-Chief Air Chief Marshal Itthiporn Supawong said that the Royal Thai Air Force has also sent a helicopter and a rescue team to join the Royal Thai Army's rescue mission for the crashed Blackhawk victims. (TNA)
