Forensic officers have recovered the remains of all nine people on board the Cessna Caravan plane which crashed into a mangrove swamp in Bang Pakong district of Chachoengsao province on August 22.
They include the captain and his co-pilot, two Thai employees of a hotel on Mai Chee Island in Trat province and five Chinese tourists.
Pongthep Sirisawat, an aviation expert from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee (AAIC), told Thai PBS today that the search team has found 80% of the plane’s wreckage, which will be used as evidence in the investigation into the cause of the accident.
He admitted that the investigation is being hampered by flight voice and data recorders (black boxes) not being installed in the plane adding, however, that the AAIC had received video clips of the accident taken by members of the public on their smart phones.
He said that some blurred clips cannot be used as evidence though.
The AAIC has informed Canada, which manufactures the engines for the Cessna Caravan plane, the United States, which manufactures the aircraft itself, China and the International Civil Aviation Organisation about the accident.
