19 July 2011
Sornwichai Khatannukul
Air accident
On 19 July, a Black Hawk helicopter flew to the rain-soaked mountain to retrieve the bodies of five soldiers killed in a helicopter crash on 16 July, which had been tasked with lifting out rangers, officials, journalists and an arrested forest encroacher stranded in the forest since 11 July.
The Black Hawk flight met the same fate. Among the nine dead are Surasi Task Force commander Maj Gen Tawan Ruangsri and Sornwichai Khatannukul, a cameraman with the TV Channel 5 army station.
