On 4 August 2009, the aircraft skidded off the runway on landing and crashed into an old and unmanned control tower.

The aircraft is reported to have skidded off the runway and hit an old and unmanned control tower that was used as a fire-fighting station.

[3] This translates as METAR for Samui Airport, issued on the 4th of the month at 07:00 UTC, wind at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph), direction 290° visibility 9 kilometres (5.6 mi; 4.9 nmi), few clouds at 2,000 feet (610 m), scattered clouds at 12,000 feet (3,700 m), broken clouds at 30,000 feet (9,100 m), temperature 31 °C (88 °F), dewpoint 25 °C (77 °F), altimeter 1007 milibar, towering cumulonimbus to north west.

It entered service with Bangkok Airways on 16 July 2001 re-registered HS-PGL.

[citation needed] The fuselage of the aircraft spent a few years on roadsides in different parts of Samui before being sunk in October 2013 as part of Majcha Air Samui Artificial Reef Project.