Passengers of a Nok Air flight were stranded at Nan airport on Wednesday for more than three hours after a rear cabin door could not be securely closed before takeoff.
The crew of Flight DD8819 bound for Bangkok's Don Mueang asked passengers, about 40 of them VIPS and members of the press, to alight from the plane and wait in the passenger terminal after the airline’s technical staff failed to fix a problem with the rear door.
The Bombardier Q400 twin turboprop was scheduled to take off on the one-hour flight to Bangkok at 10.50am.