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200 more troops join hunt



September 10, 1997

BANGKOK POST
HELICOPTER SEARCH
200 more troops join hunt
Tak - The two-week-old search for a missing army helicopter was yesterday 
reinforced by the addition of another 200 soldiers as the search moved to the 
mountains of Umphang district of this province bordering Burma.
The search team began scouring Umphang on Monday. In the preceeding weeks it 
combed the adjoining Phop Phra district and the area opposite the district in 
Burma for the wreckage of the copter and its four occupants, presumed dead, 
but without success.
The Jet Ranger helicopter with Lt Chanvej Kiddee and Lt Adisak Pongpes, the 
pilots, and two passangers, Mst-Sgt Anek Panchaeng and Sgt Krisda Thamsorn, 
went missing on August 28 while flying over Phop Phra and Umphang districts in 
a rainstorm.