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.