Homemade Rockets ‘Narrowly Miss’ Military Plane

BANGKOK — A military commander has instructed residents in rural Thailand to seek permission before launching homemade rockets after a military airplane was reportedly almost hit by three rockets yesterday.

Air Vice Marshal Mana Prasopsri, director of the Royal Thai Air Force’s civil aviation department, said two pilots from 461 Air Squadron were flying a military plane in a training session over Kamphaeng Phet province when three homemade rockets came within 200 meters of the aircraft, which was cruising at the altitude of 3,000 feet at the time.

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