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  • Thailand's Nok Air sorry for pilot joke about crashing plane carrying ousted PM Yingluck

    06/13/2016 3:49:36 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 1 replies
    straitstimes.com ^ | Jun 13, 2016, 5:00 pm SGT | afp
    The pilot's comments were made in a social media chat group used by Nok Air pilots that was later leaked. In it a pilot posted a picture of Yingluck about to board their Nok Air flight over the weekend. One chat member responded with "We have prey on board". Another then added "CFIT". CFIT is an aviation acronym for "controlled flight into terrain", a term used to describe when a pilot unintentionally crashes a plane that has no technical problems. Panthongtae Shinawatra - the son of Yingluck's brother Thaksin Shinawatra, who was toppled as premier by a 2006 coup -...