One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269

A similar One-Two -Go MD - 82 on the Phuket airport

One-Two -Go Airlines Flight 269 was a scheduled passenger flight of the low-cost carrier One-Two -Go Airlines, the accident on the 600 km long domestic flight from Bangkok's Don Mueang airport to the Phuket airport on September 16, 2007, landing. The aircraft, McDonnell Douglas MD -82 had 123 passengers and seven crew members on board.

Course

The aircraft took off around 14:30 local time clock from Bangkok - Don Mueang airport and crashed on landing in Phuket. The machine was set up as an approximately 60 -minute flight from 15:35 clock, but then was out of control and slid sideways off the runway. On the landing there was westerly wind with a speed of 12 knots and it was raining heavily. The machine broke in two when she crashed into a group of trees and finally bored with his nose in an embankment. Then they went up in flames.

Cause

As a cause of the accident was a combination of several occasions in the final report of the investigations mentioned: on the one hand, the weather was bad, on the other hand, the flight crew did not respond adequately, the situation at the airport itself was deemed in need of improvement. Before landing the Indonesian pilot Areef Mulyadi said to have been warned by the tower several times before difficult wind conditions, have nevertheless decided to land.

Salvage

The two flight recorders were recovered and flown for evaluation in the United States.

Aircraft

The aircraft was a twin-engine short - and medium-range machine type McDonnell Douglas MD- 82, the budget airline One-Two -Go Airlines, which still has five more aircraft of this type. The aircraft with the registration HS- OMG and the serial number 49183 made ​​its first flight on November 17, 1983. The aircraft was equipped with engines of the type Pratt & Whitney JT8D - 217A. It was first delivered on 20 December 1983, Trans World Airlines and used after the takeover on December 2, 2001 by American Airlines. At that time the machine had the identifier N912TW. From April 2006, the machine was turned off and went into the fleet of One-Two -Go Airlines on 21 March 2007. In the accident, it was around 22 total loss of an aircraft of this series and until then the third worst air accident in Thailand. It was the most serious accident in Thailand since 1998 Thai Airways Flight 261 was crashed into a rice paddy.

Passengers

Among the passengers were at least 85 foreigners, including from Europe, Australia and Asia. After the first reports of the rescue workers had rescued 42 people from burning machine. In the accident 90 people were killed, including 62 foreigners. Among the survivors were 14 Thais, eight British and four German, three Iranians, three Irishmen, two Dutch, two Swedes and one Australian, Austrian, French and Italian. Among the dead were two German students from Mainz.