The National Airport Authority of Thailand Commission investigating the hard landing of a Thai Airways International airbus in Bangkok is looking for a "ghost flight attendant" who helped evacuate people from the emergency board.
The plane, en route from Guangzhou (China), on September 15 landed at Bangkok airport with a faulty right-hand landing gear group and drove off the runway. In the accident, no one was injured, but 13 people were injured during the evacuation from the plane.
“There was a terrible panic, everyone thought that the plane would catch fire, and in a crowd rushed to the emergency exits. The flight attendants could not cope with the situation, and several people were injured,”one of the passengers who testified to the investigation commission told the TV channel.
“In the midst of panic, I saw a flight attendant dressed in Thai national dress. I couldn't make out the name on her bib. She very calmly addressed the passengers and immediately put things in order. And after the evacuation from the plane, no one else saw her,”the passenger said.
Despite several similar testimonies, all the flight attendants on the flight claim to be wearing airline uniforms. According to Thai Airways tradition, all flight attendants change into Thai national dress after take-off and don the uniform again before boarding.
Airport surveillance cameras and video footage of firefighters and rescuers recorded that all crew members were in airline uniform during the evacuation of passengers. Otherworldly experts suggested that the "good angel" could be one of the stewardesses who died in the crash of a Thai Airways plane in December 1998, RIA Novosti reports.