Thai Flying Service Flight 209

On 22 August 2024, the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan serving the flight, with nine occupants on board, crashed shortly after taking off from Bangkok, killing all aboard.

[1][2] The aircraft involved, manufactured in 2007,[3] was a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan registered as HS-SKR with serial number 208B1241.

The plane crashed in a mangrove swamp[4] near the Wat Khao Din temple [th][5] in Bang Pakong district of Chachoengsao province,[6] disintegrating on impact and killing all nine on board.

[8] Local residents reported to have seen the plane diving to the ground, and then exploding in a loud bang on impact throwing fragments in a radius of at least 20 meters.

[11] More than 300 military personnel and volunteers were deployed in the search for the aircraft, which was hampered by heavy rains.

The wreckage in a forest of Bang Pakong