The Cambodian government will introduce safer route between the kingdom's hottest travel destinations Siem Reap and Sihanoukville, thus reducing the possibility of air crash, local press reported on Tuesday.
Future flights between the two cities will avoid mountainous areas judged to be too dangerous, but the detour will mean flights last twice as long, English-language newspaper the Cambodian Daily quoted officials as saying.
It was unclear when any air carrier will begin serving the new route, which is still in the process of mapping, it said.
"The new route is expected to be safer but it needs to detour around the area where we think it isn't safe," said Him Sarun, cabinet chief at the State Secretariat for Civil Aviation.
"We believe the new route will take an hour and a half while the current route is just 45 minutes," he added.
Cambodia's PMT Air Flight U4 241 crashed on June 25 into a Kampot province mountainside en route from Siem Reap and only 51 km from Sihanoukville's Kang Keng Airport. All 22 people aboard were killed.
Tourism is one of the pillar industries of Cambodia. The flight route from Siem Reap to Sihanoukville was just kicked off early this year to further promote the tourist boom.
Source: Xinhua
Future flights between the two cities will avoid mountainous areas judged to be too dangerous, but the detour will mean flights last twice as long, English-language newspaper the Cambodian Daily quoted officials as saying.
It was unclear when any air carrier will begin serving the new route, which is still in the process of mapping, it said.
"The new route is expected to be safer but it needs to detour around the area where we think it isn't safe," said Him Sarun, cabinet chief at the State Secretariat for Civil Aviation.
"We believe the new route will take an hour and a half while the current route is just 45 minutes," he added.
Cambodia's PMT Air Flight U4 241 crashed on June 25 into a Kampot province mountainside en route from Siem Reap and only 51 km from Sihanoukville's Kang Keng Airport. All 22 people aboard were killed.
Tourism is one of the pillar industries of Cambodia. The flight route from Siem Reap to Sihanoukville was just kicked off early this year to further promote the tourist boom.
Source: Xinhua
2 comments:
Well...
Turning a 45-minute flight into a 90-minute flight sounds a bit weird to me. Doubling the distance, the pollution, and the time it takes. But does that make the flight any safer? Considering the fact that the dangerous area must be the crash site, around Bokor, what other flight path can we use?
First choice: the plane would be going from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh, then take a 90-degree turn right towards Sihanoukville... That doesn't make it much safer as we're still passing close to Bokor.
Or in the other direction, it means flying above the Cardamoms, too damned dangerous, so it can't be that. Siem Reap - Phnom Penh - Sihanoukville?...
The reason of the crash doesn't seem to be related to the dangerosity of the area, but more likely to the fact that 1. the pilot was way out of his normal flight path and 2. he wasn't following instructions from the control tower. I do not think that a longer flight path will change anything to these 2 points.
What do you think?
Up to A Kwack!
How about all flight go to vietname first?
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