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Angkor Sky flight ZA484 reportedly blew out four tyres on landing in Siem Reap airport early this morning. The plane was on a direct flight from Wuhan, China with 122 passengers aboard. The incident was due to a technical problem where the brakes did not release. No one was injured.
Source: Kooon Khmer

Brakes failed story again eh? Motos, tuk tuks, cars, truck, trains and now planes. How bout ships? have I left any conveyance out?
Seems to be an Asian theme.

Did the pilots run away?

Now there's 122 Chinese people who are not coming back to Cambodia again.

About 7 years ago i had a very interesting conversation with a technician who serviced planes and he told me that the reason i had flown on an old Thai airways jet to go to Bangkok was because that plane was leased by AirAsia since the aviation authorities would not allow AirAsia planes to fly into their airspace. The reason was because their maintenance schedules didnt meet their strict requirements.

IraHayes wrote:About 7 years ago i had a very interesting conversation with a technician who serviced planes and he told me that the reason i had flown on an old Thai airways jet to go to Bangkok was because that plane was leased by AirAsia since the aviation authorities would not allow AirAsia planes to fly into their airspace. The reason was because their maintenance schedules didnt meet their strict requirements.

Funny, cause Thai Airways is known for terrible maintenance aswell.

Raybull wrote:

IraHayes wrote:About 7 years ago i had a very interesting conversation with a technician who serviced planes and he told me that the reason i had flown on an old Thai airways jet to go to Bangkok was because that plane was leased by AirAsia since the aviation authorities would not allow AirAsia planes to fly into their airspace. The reason was because their maintenance schedules didnt meet their strict requirements.

Funny, cause Thai Airways is known for terrible maintenance aswell.

Yep. And Thailand has been in trouble with IATA for years now with regulatory and safety practices. And most flights going to/from Thailand are run by Thai AirAsia which is under Thai aviation regulators. So it doesn't really sound legit.

cptrelentless wrote:Now there's 122 Chinese people who are not coming back to Cambodia again.

Worse case scenario, maybe they don't want to leave Cambodia and we're stuck with them.

any landing with no fatalities is a good landing