New Airport Sabotaged?

In Todays BKK Post:


Sabotage suspected in airport power cuts
AMORNRAT MAHITTHIROOK

Caretaker Transport Minister Pongsak Raktapongpaisal ordered an investigation into three electricity blackouts at Suvarnabhumi airport yesterday morning which he believed were part of a coordinated attempt to derail the airport's commercial operation beginning yesterday. Airports of Thailand (AoT) also filed a complaint with police against a suspect spotted on video footage from the airport's security cameras.


''We want to know who is behind the sabotage, and what is the motive,'' Mr Pongsak said.


Security at the airport would be stepped up and people entering and leaving the airport checked.


More security cameras would be installed at the airport, especially in control rooms, he added.


The security measures also require officials entering and leaving the airport's control rooms to pass security cameras.


They are to sign their names and give phone numbers before entering and leaving the control room as well. Staff will have to wear ID badges.


The first power blackout took place at 1.02am at Thai Airways International (THAI) check-in counters, which was followed by a second at 1.08am at Bangkok Airways counters and a third at 1.10am at AIMS building.


The blackout at THAI check-in counters forced staff to process passengers manually.


The power outage caused the first commercial flight from Suvarnabhumi, bound for Phitsanulok, to be delayed for 30 minutes. Mr Pongsak said the airport's telephone cables laid in ventilation pipes had been sabotaged before. It disrupted the airport's communication system.


''To prevent further sabotage, it's better to have the airport operational as soon as possible,'' he said
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/16Sep2006_news01.php

Police should be on the look-out for a fat bald old cunt looking for some "schadenfreude".

[Brad the Impala]

Police should be on the look-out for a fat bald old cunt looking for some "schadenfreude".

Or Thaiquila in a strop and feeling unwelcome.

Police should be on the look-out for a fat bald old cunt looking for some "schadenfreude".

Or Thaiquila in a strop and feeling unwelcome.

Maybe Thaiqulia having previously been banned for life from a board for posting offensive ethnic material is feeling a little unloved?

He claims the new Thai visa regulations are tantamount to racism but felt quite prepared to post material guaranteed to upset many other ethnic groups. Then after being banned posted on another forum:

<In any case, the pit is history, may it die a slow and painful death without my contributions,>

The man is a either a self opinionated fool or a TROLL

:bounce:

[Dboy]

Does it make me a bad person if I secretly suspect a subcontrator's bad wiring job, or rats chewing through the wire bundles, to be a more likely cause than sabotage?

Dboy

[wowpow]

Speedy probe into official's role in airport blackout

An investigation into the airport official who pulled the wrong power breaker, causing a blackout at Suvarnabhumi Airport during the soft opening on Friday, will be completed within a week, the caretaker transport minister said yesterday. Pongsak Ruktapongpisal said after attending a meeting with the board of the Airport Authority of Thailand (AOT) that police had interrogated the official who is said to have caused the blackout, as well as three or four witnesses.
However, it has not yet been decided whether the official deliberately pulled the wrong power breaker.

Pongsak said the official had been temporarily suspended from his job until the investigation is complete and the police can conclude the case. He expects the investigation to be completed within a week. If found to have cut the power on purpose, the official would be charged with a criminal offence under the 1978 Air Transportation Act as he had impeded airport operations.

Meanwhile, AOT managing director Chotisak Asphawiriya said 10 more closed-circuit TV cameras would be installed at the airport within the next few days.
Commenting on the delay of the first commercial flight from Suvarnabhumi Airport on Friday, Chotisak insisted it was because of passengers who had spent time taking pictures of the new airport, not because of operational problems.

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