
The miracle of 11A gained even more intrigue when an unusual connection surfaced—one that spanned across continents and decades. Back in 1998, a Thai Airways flight, TG261, en route from Bangkok to Surat Thani, crashed while attempting to land amid heavy rain and low visibility. The Airbus A310, carrying 146 people, lost 101 lives that day. One of the very few survivors was a well-known Thai actor and singer, James Ruangsak Loychusak, who happened to be sitting in seat 11A. The similarities between these two events—two separate plane crashes, two drastically different aircraft, two continents, yet the same seat number and same miraculous outcome—sparked a wave of wonder and media attention.