Eight crushed when helicopter hovers over party to throw sweets, causing stadium roof to collapse
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Eight people are crushed to death when a helicopter pilot hovers over a children’s party to drop candy, causing the stadium roof to collapse in Thailand
- Five children among those injured after a Navy helicopter flew low over a roof
- The helicopter stopped to drop flowers and candy to children at a party below.
- A woman was taken to hospital with a broken neck and a cut to her head.
Eight people, including five children, were injured in Thailand on Saturday when a helicopter flying over a children’s party caused the roof of a stadium to collapse.
The Thai navy helicopter flew low to scatter flowers and sweets for children celebrating a National Children’s Day event, but the downdraft from the plane toppled tents and caused a canvas and steel roof to collapse. .
Nareerat Khumkana, 58, was taken to nearby Prapokklao Hospital with a broken neck and a cut to her head, according to local media.
Navy helicopter arrives at the National Children’s Day event in eastern Thailand.
Attendees were seen parting as the helicopter shook the tents and dropped candy.
From another angle, small objects can be seen falling from the helicopter above the crowd.
bangkok post reported that the Tha Chang local municipal office had asked the navy’s Chanthaburi and Trat Border Defense Command to organize the flyover.
Tha Chang Mayor Tawatchai Chantakit told an evening news conference that the municipality will fully compensate the injured.
Children and adults attended a large National Children’s Day event in eastern Thailand.
A navy spokesman apologized on behalf of Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Choengchai Chomchoengpaet, who ordered the distribution of financial and medical aid to the victims.
Tha Chang is a municipality in Tha Muang District of Chanthaburi Province in eastern Thailand, about 150 miles east of Bangkok and on the Cambodian border.
Two injured adults and five children were taken to the hospital, but were released soon after.
In 2017, a Jas 39 fighter jet it crashed during an air show on Children’s Day in Songkhla province, southern Thailand, at a flyover organized by the Royal Thai Air Force.
Squadron leader Dilokrit Pattavee was killed when the plane he was piloting crashed on a runway during the air show.