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Bodies retrieved from ill-fated Thai Blackhawk moved to hometowns
PETCHABURI, July 26 (TNA) - The bodies of seven Thai army officers and a TV cameraman retrieved from a Blackhawk helicopter--which crashed on the Myanmar soil adjacent to Kaeng Krajan National Park in Thailand's Petchaburi Province last week--were being moved for funeral in their hometowns.
Accompanied by their relatives, the eight bodies were moved this morning, amid mourners and lines of army officers in the greatest honourable aspect for them, from the Tung Ladya Temple in Kanchanaburi Province's Muang District, where an honourable bathing ceremony was first held yesterday for them and for Major General Tawan Ruangsri, Commander of the 9th Infantry Division, another demised recovered from the ill-fated Thai army Blackhawk wreckage. The funeral of Major General Tawan is being held at the Tung Ladya Temple, as Kanchanaburi is his hometown.
The Blackhawk, one in only six acquired by the Royal Thai Army, crashed on a mountain in Myanmar last Tuesday when it was joining two other helicopters of the Thai Ministries of Natural Resources and Environment and Agriculture and Cooperatives in an official mission to recover the bodies of all five troops on board another Thai army helicopter which crashed in a deep forest of the Kaeng Krajan National Park three days earlier.
Meanwhile, Colonel Docter Peerapol Pokpong, chief of the accident and emergency ward of King Rama VI Hospital in Bangkok, said that Sergeant Pathanaporn Tanjan, a Thai army mechanic who narrowly survived in a last-minute rescue from the wreckage of a burning army helicopter, operated by nearby villagers, has been recovering well and will be moved out of the emergency ward later on Tuesday.
Sergeant Pathanaporn and three other army officers were flying the Bell 212 helicopter for the same mission to retrieve the nine bodies from the Blackhawk wreckage last Sunday morning when it then crashed and exploded into flames. The three other officers on board were killed at the scene with the charred chopper wreckage. It was the third Thai army helicopter crash in eight days with a loss of 17 lives totally, 16 were Thai army officers and the cameraman of the Thai army-supervised TV Channel 5. (TNA)
Accompanied by their relatives, the eight bodies were moved this morning, amid mourners and lines of army officers in the greatest honourable aspect for them, from the Tung Ladya Temple in Kanchanaburi Province's Muang District, where an honourable bathing ceremony was first held yesterday for them and for Major General Tawan Ruangsri, Commander of the 9th Infantry Division, another demised recovered from the ill-fated Thai army Blackhawk wreckage. The funeral of Major General Tawan is being held at the Tung Ladya Temple, as Kanchanaburi is his hometown.
The Blackhawk, one in only six acquired by the Royal Thai Army, crashed on a mountain in Myanmar last Tuesday when it was joining two other helicopters of the Thai Ministries of Natural Resources and Environment and Agriculture and Cooperatives in an official mission to recover the bodies of all five troops on board another Thai army helicopter which crashed in a deep forest of the Kaeng Krajan National Park three days earlier.
Meanwhile, Colonel Docter Peerapol Pokpong, chief of the accident and emergency ward of King Rama VI Hospital in Bangkok, said that Sergeant Pathanaporn Tanjan, a Thai army mechanic who narrowly survived in a last-minute rescue from the wreckage of a burning army helicopter, operated by nearby villagers, has been recovering well and will be moved out of the emergency ward later on Tuesday.
Sergeant Pathanaporn and three other army officers were flying the Bell 212 helicopter for the same mission to retrieve the nine bodies from the Blackhawk wreckage last Sunday morning when it then crashed and exploded into flames. The three other officers on board were killed at the scene with the charred chopper wreckage. It was the third Thai army helicopter crash in eight days with a loss of 17 lives totally, 16 were Thai army officers and the cameraman of the Thai army-supervised TV Channel 5. (TNA)
