News Forum - Thick smog in Mae Hong Son causes pilot carrying acting US ambassador to detour

[Thaiger]

Due to poor visibility caused by haze above Mae Hong Son airport in nothern Thailand, a private plane flying the acting US ambassador this morning cancelled a landing and returned to Chiang Mai International Airport. Smog has been a longstanding problem in northern Thailand and kicks up every year during burning season from February to April. Today, the local air pollution monitoring station recorded levels of PM2.5 at 98 micrograms per square cubic metre of air, over the safe threshold. The Meteorological Office recorded multiple hot spots in Northern regions, probably caused by weed burning and wildfires in Myanmar, leading to […]

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[DoUKnowWhoIAm]

14 minutes ago, Thaiger said:

Smog has been a longstanding problem in northern Thailand

Wasn't that banned last year? Sorry, stupid question.

[CamPat]

Great news. Perhaps this kind of smog is what the Russians need to smoke out Nato. The american ambassador obviously has never been in any war which in combat is full of smoke and loud noise. Pussy.

Perhaps he's scare of the Myanmar Army. They're too close.

 

[Guest1]

Ja, about now is the best time, to visit the greater Chiang Mai area!

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[Cathat]

7 hours ago, CamPat said:

Great news. Perhaps this kind of smog is what the Russians need to smoke out Nato. The american ambassador obviously has never been in any war which in combat is full of smoke and loud noise. Pussy.

Perhaps he's scare of the Myanmar Army. They're too close.

Maybe but perhaps the runway visual range went below the legal limit during the final approach phase of the flight and the aircraft commander made the legal and correct decision to abort.

There is a lot of high terrain in the area and it is tricky at the best of times.

The final approach used to be a non precision one and probably still is, minima is much greater when flying such procedures.