Truck carrying crashed Black Hawk involved in road accident

The cab of the army trailer truck carrying the crashed Black Hawk helicopter rests against a tree on the median strip of the Phetkasem highway after it was sideswiped by another truck on Sunday evening in Phatthalung's Khao Chaison district. (Photo: Assawin Pakkawan)
The particular cab of the military trailer truck holding the crashed Black Hawk helicopter sits against a woods on the median strip of the Phetkasem road after it was sideswiped by another truck on Sunday evening in Phatthalung’s Khao Chaison district. (Photo: Assawin Pakkawan)

An army truck carrying the destroyed Black Hawk helicopter away from its crash-landing site in Songkhla was involved in an incident while passing another trailer truck within Khao Chaison district, Phatthalung province, on Sunday evening.

The incident was reported in order to Khao Chaison police about 6. 45pm.

The particular army semi-trailer has been taking the wreckage from Thepha district to an aviation centre in Lop Buri province for examination.

It was traveling in the right street on the north-bound aspect of the Phetkasem road in tambon Khao Chaison.

The driver told police the other trailer vehicle was on his still left and it veered abruptly to the right. This hit the side of the army truck, which then veered off the road and hit a shrub on the highway median strip.

Sanit Suayngam, 52, the driver of the other truck, said he was trying to avoid hitting the pickup in front of your pet whose driver acquired suddenly hit the particular brakes, and he sideswiped the army vehicle.

Police said only slight damage was accomplished to the two vehicles. Nobody was injured. Mr Sanit was charged with reckless driving.

The army trailer truck continued on to an army camp within Phatthalung and remained overnight. It was to carry on to Lop Buri on Monday.

The Dark Hawk helicopter developed an engine issue shortly after takeoff while flying over tambon Wang Yai within Songkhla’s Thepha region on Friday morning. The pilot made an emergency crash landing into trees in a rubber plantation.

All 7 people on board had been injured – Lt Gen Kriangkrai Srirak, who is commander from the 4th Army Region, two pilots, 2 mechanics, a cameraman and an aide-de-camp. They were rescued through the wreckage and hurried to hospital soon after the crash. Lt Gen Kriangkrai apparently suffered a broken pelvis.