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Boeing 777 incident in Bangkok

1 May 2017 · In the sky near Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok (Thailand) — site of the encounter with turbulence; Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok (Thailand) — emergency landing

Aeroflot Boeing 777 · Clear-air turbulence

From Sheremetyevo, Moscow (Russia) to Suvarnabhumi, Bangkok (Thailand)

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Event

Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
Occurrence
Event fatalities
0 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
Unknown
Survivors
332
InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
27
OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
Airline

Boeing 777

Flight
SU270
Aircraft type
Boeing 777
Category
Airplane · from aircraft type
RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
VP-BGD
Operator
Aeroflot
Onboard fatalities
0
Route
From Sheremetyevo, Moscow (Russia)To Suvarnabhumi, Bangkok (Thailand)

Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.

From the Wikipedia article

The Boeing 777 incident in Bangkok was an aviation incident that occurred in the dead of night on 1 May 2017. A Boeing 777-3M0ER passenger airliner of the Russian airline Aeroflot was operating scheduled flight SU270 on the Moscow – Bangkok route, but approximately 40 minutes before landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok the aircraft encountered clear-air turbulence. The crew was able to land the aircraft safely at its destination. Of the 332 people on board (313 passengers and 19 crew members), no one was killed, but 27 people received injuries of varying severity.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Ukrainian Wikipedia article “Інцидент з Boeing 777 у Бангкоку” (revision 48266826, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article

Sources

Ukrainian Wikipedia article: Інцидент з Boeing 777 у Бангкоку
Article
Інцидент з Boeing 777 у Бангкоку
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
48266826 · 2026-06-23 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Licence
Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
Record
uk Wikipedia article "Інцидент з Boeing 777 у Бангкоку" (page 4608502, revision 48266826), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia infobox: date
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
none
Aircraft, operator and route
Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
Operation
airline flight number in the infobox
Fatalities
Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
Ground fatalities
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Summary
Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
  • Wikipedia · Facts from the Ukrainian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.