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Thai air force probes mushroom pick-up mission
0 Comments | AFP, November, 2007
BANGKOK (AFP) — Thailand's air force has launched an investigation after a pilot allegedly landed a search-and-rescue helicopter in a field to pick mushrooms for his mother, an official said Friday.
Seven air force crew including the two pilots are being probed after they made the unscheduled hour-long stop in a rice paddy in western Kanchanaburi province on Tuesday, said air force spokesman Monthon Suchookorn.
"It's obviously wrong to leave the plane unattended for one hour -- it could risk terrorist sabotage," Monthon told AFP.
Local press on Friday quoted villagers in Kanchanaburi who said they were perplexed when the chopper flew in low over the fields and then landed.
They asked the crew what they were doing, and one pilot replied that his...
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