One of the survivors of the 1998 Thai Airways crash has now stepped forward with a spine-tingling revelation: his seat on that ill-fated flight was also 11A — the same number that is now headline news following the fatal Air India crash in Ahmedabad. The strange coincidence has left aviation enthusiasts and netizens agog, evoking memories of past tragedies.
Thai Airways Flight TG 261 was heading to Surat Thani when it crashed on landing and killed 101 individuals. One of the survivors of the debris, now in his late 50s, recalls experiencing “an instant chill” when he read that Seat 11A had been implicated in a deadly crash once again. “I never forgot that number. When I saw it a second time, I was frozen,” he told an interviewer.
Though aviation professionals are adamant that there is no rational connection between seat numbers and aircraft safety, the two tragedies have sparked discussion on social media. Some have referred to it as an unsettling coincidence, but others think it’s merely a statistical anomaly that has taken on creepy meaning. Nevertheless, the spooky repetition of “11A” in two unconnected crashes has captured public fascination.
As investigations into the Air India 787 Dreamliner crash remain ongoing, with the black box already recovered, reports like this give emotional depth and human touch to the tragedy.
