Paiboon Paphan, the rescuer-in-yellow

Paiboon Paphan, a Thai survivor from the plane crash, whose spine was injured, was brought on a wheelchair to visit an Australian survivor Mr Robert Boreland who he saved after the crash. Being treated at the Bangkok Phuket Hospital Robert suffered broken bones and burns, but he requested to see Paiboon to thank Paiboon for saving his life. After the crash caused fire flames, Paiboon pulled Robert out of the plane wreckage. At that time Robert only knew it was a man in yellow. Paiboon said he was proud to help save someone’s life and that it has been reported worldwide that a man in yellow saved a foreign tourist. He said he wore yellow in honor of His Majesty the King of Thailand.

Yellow is the King’s color and many Thai are wearing very frequent a yellow shirt with the Royal Weapon to express their admiration and honor for their King

Source: http://www.thaisnews.com/news
Collected by Antoni P. Uni – Bangkok, 20-9-2007