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No one responsible for Service Hall collapse at Don Mueang Airport, confirms AOT

No one is responsible for the partial collapse of the newly-built Service Hall at Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport in April last year, confirms Airports of Thailand (AOT). Excessive rainfall was blamed for the incident.

Tomorrow, February 8, the repaired Service Hall will open for use, some ten months after its collapse.

On April 17, 2022, parts of the roof and walls of the Service Hall collapsed during a thunderstorm. The hall was built one year prior, for over 102 million baht, but hadn’t been put into use due to low demand during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Luckily, no one was inside the building when the walls caved in. No injuries or deaths were reported.

The core structure of the building was not affected.

Pisak Jitwiriyawasin, deputy permanent secretary of the Ministry of Transport, chaired a fact-finding panel to investigate the true cause of the terrifying incident upon…

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