Aircraft stay well away from the famousbung fai bamboo rocket festival in Yasothon. The home-made rockets are surprising fast and powerful, not something a pilot would want to run into.
This year's festival ended last month, but the popularity of the bamboo rockets hasspread far beyond Yasothon.
On Tuesday, two Royal Thai Air Forcepilots on a training flight out of their basein Phitsanulok were shocked to see threebung fai rockets cross their flight path within 200 metres of their aircraft.
The RTAF asked police to identify the people behind the launch and warn them they could face life imprisonment or even the death penalty if their rockets cause a plane to crash.