Thai police to let aviation experts inspect ‘wreckage’

A picture made available on 24 January 2016 shows a Thai police officer and villagers inspecting a piece of a suspected airplane wreckage at a beach in Pak Phanang district, Nakhon Si Thammarat. EPA.

BANGKOK: Authorities in the southern Thailand district of Pak Phanang will enlist aviation experts to inspect the suspected “wreckage” of a plane found off the coast of Nakhon Si Thammarat.

Police Sub Lt It Paijit Pongkaew said the suspected wreckage would be brought to the district police station for the experts from the aviation sector and the country’s air force to inspect it.