Date: 03 March 2001
Airline: Thai Airways International
Flight No.: 114
Aircraft: Boeing 737-4D7
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Fatalities: 1:5
Photographer: Sakchai Lalit
Preliminary: Approximately 35 minutes before its scheduled departure time, fire
broke out aboard Thai Airways flight TG114, scheduled to fly from Bangkok's Don
Muang International Airport to the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai. Newly-elected
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was scheduled to be aboard the
flight, was uninjured. Authorities said that a bombing could not be ruled out.