Template:Did you know nominations/Thai Airways International Flight 114

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by History6042 talk 17:55, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Thai Airways International Flight 114

(

• Back to TM:TDYK
• Article history

)

The wreckage of Thai Airways International Flight 114

• ... that the prime minister of Thailand was minutes away from boarding a plane that exploded (pictured)?

• Source: Plastic Explosive Destroyed the Plane That Premier Thaksin Was to Board Archive: A bomb caused the explosion that destroyed a Thai airliner Saturday, minutes before new Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was to board the plane.

• ALT1: ... that a suspected assassination attempt (pictured) on the prime minister of Thailand was an accident? Source: Fuel tank, not bomb, blew up Thai plane: At the time, the explosion was thought to be an attempt to assassinate the Prime Minister
• ALT2: ... that Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was minutes away from boarding a plane that exploded (pictured)? Source: Plastic Explosive Destroyed the Plane That Premier Thaksin Was to Board Archive: A bomb caused the explosion that destroyed a Thai airliner Saturday, minutes before new Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was to board the plane.
• ALT3: ... that a suspected assassination attempt (pictured) on the prime minister of Thailand was an accident? Source: Fuel tank, not bomb, blew up Thai plane: At the time, the explosion was thought to be an attempt to assassinate the Prime Minister
• ALT4: ... that an unplanned delay prevented "a major national tragedy" on Thai Airways International Flight 114 (pictured)? Source: Sabotage suspected in Thai plane blast: Airline officials said a major national tragedy had been averted because of an unplanned delay of flight TG 114...
• Reviewed:
• Comment: Preference for hooks goes ALT0/ALT1, ALT2/ALT3, then ALT4. Reviewers feel free to suggest changes to the hooks to make them more suitable for the main page. Will not be able to respond to review from June 27–29.

5x expanded by RandomInfinity17 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

RandomInfinity17 (talk - contributions) 01:07, 22 June 2025 (UTC).
General eligibility:

• New enough:
• Long enough:
• Other problems:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
• Other problems:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Checks all the boxes, and all hooks are good (though ALT3 is a duplicate of ALT1?). S5A-0043🚎^(Talk) 09:27, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Whoops, ALT3 was supposed to be ALT1 but with Thaksin Shinawatra mentioned directly (like ALT0/ALT2).RandomInfinity17 (talk - contributions) 13:39, 22 June 2025 (UTC)