From: riburr@shentel.net   
      
   Thai air force suspends pilot for landing helicopter to pick mushrooms   
   for mom   
      
   The Associated Press   
   Friday, November 16, 2007   
      
   BANGKOK, Thailand: A Thai air force pilot has been suspended from flying   
   duties after allegedly landing his helicopter in the countryside to   
   collect wild mushrooms for his mother, a spokesman said Friday.   
      
   The air force ordered the provisional suspension and began investigating   
   after villagers in the western province of Kanchanaburi reported the   
   incident to police, said spokesman Capt. Monthon Satchukorn.   
      
   Monthon said villagers said that a helicopter had circled a jungle   
   clearing Wednesday before landing, and when some of them went to   
   investigate, they found that the pilot had gone.   
      
   When the pilot eventually returned, he told them he had been collecting   
   mushrooms for his mother.   
      
   "The pilot will face punishment for abandoning his helicopter without   
   anyone to look after it and also for violating other rules," Monthon said.   
      
      
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