THE SIGHT AND THE SOUND 10/14 : Thai Airways DC-10 HS-TMC documentary from Copenhagen to Bangkok

THAI AIRWAYS DC-10-30ER HS-TMC COPENHAGEN - BANGKOK
MARCH 19, 1997

This inflight documentation is almost two decades old and features a flight onboard Thai Airways DC-10-30ER from Copenhagen to Bangkok. This flight took place two days after the sensational flight rotation on Balkan IL-18 to Newfoundland. My return journey back from Sofia to Seoul, South Korea took me via Prague (CSA TU-134A), Budapest (Malev B 737-500), Copenhagen (Malev TU-134A), Bangkok (Thai DC-10), Ho Chi Minh (Thai A-300-600), Haiphong (Vietnam Airlines TU-134A), from Hanoi (Vietnam Airlines A-320) via Ho Chi Minh to Osaka - KIX (JAL, DC-10). From there to Tokyo-Haneda (JAL 777-200) and finally to Seoul from Tokyo-Narita on Asiana B 747-400. All of this happened in March, 1997, the busiest month of flying in my lifetime.
This flight was taped with the very first generation of video cameras with digital recording on mini DV cassettes. There were neither stabilizing nor focussing features available at that time.

Flight details

Flight : TG 951
Date : March 19, 1997
Aircraft : DC-10-30ER
Registration : HS-TMC
Name : Sri Ubon
Later registrations :
N240NW (Northwest Airlines)
N621AX (Omni Air International)
Built : 1988
From : Copenhagen (CPH)
To : Bangkok (BKK)
Take off : 15.41 h (1441 UTC)
Touch down : 07.55 h (0055 UTC)
Flying time : 10 hours 14 minutes
Flying distance : 8.617 km
Altitude : 10.100 / 10.750 m
Speed : 1.021 km/h