New Year cheer
A boy on February 19 plays with a lion dancer during Chinese New Year celebrations in the Yaowarat area of Bangkok.
Grounded flight
Plane has trouble with door
On February 18, passengers of a Nok Air flight were stranded at Nan airport for more than three hours after a rear cabin door could not be securely closed before take-off.
The crew of Flight DD8819, bound for Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport, asked the 86 passengers to alight from the plane and wait in the passenger terminal after the airline’s technical staff failed to fix the problem.
Nok Air official Patee Sarasin said he expected that some nuts on the door might have been loose. The aircraft could not take off for safety reasons, he said, so the company sent a replacement plane to Nan airport.