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Group Captain Monthol Satchukorn said the Air Force has set up a committee to investigate allegations that the flight crew, from unit 2034 at the Kamphaeng Saen Aviation School in Nakhon Pathom, abused their position to go on the unorthodox mission.

He said the unit, whose main responsibility is search and rescue, often go on practice missions to designated training zones in Nakhon Pathom, Ratchaburi and parts of Kanchanaburi.

At the time of the alleged mushroom incident, the helicopter crew was undergoing flying and landing training in Kanchanaburi.

Monthol said the probe committee would find out if the pilots abandoned their helicopter to collect the mushrooms as alleged. If the flight crew members are found to have broken the rules, he said, they will be punished according to the degree of wrongdoing.

The Nation