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Quote: from Jojje on 9:10 pm on Sep. 16, 2007
but because of what I know about the airline industry there are quite a few airlines I never board. One-to-go was already one of them
Jojje, Which other airlines are on your list???
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Posted on: 1:39 pm on Sep. 16, 2007
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Quote: from Jojje on 2:10 am on Sep. 17, 2007
Did you know that in most recorded accidents actually people survive the crash itself?? Yes - that is true facts! The single biggest killer is FIRE! As well as in this tragedy. People were not killed because of this bad landing. They died and were suffocated from flames.
.... errr... actually, sorry for the pedantic correction... but it is mostly the toxic fumes that gets people killed before the actual flames burn their flesh. People pass out before they can even try getting out of the plane.
Another correction... not so sure about people surviving most recorded accidents.... I doubt very much those where the plane crashed far far far away from the runway.... though yes, very likely that is the the case for those accidents where the crew actually made a landing attempt.
The grand-daddy of all efforts of crew's professionalism and heroism, with positive amazing results, the UA DC-10 flight that crashed in Iowa in 1989.
Jojje, you may find these books morbidly interesting: "THE BLACK BOX, Cockpit Voice Recorder of In-Flight Accidents" by Malcolm Macpherson (not recommended for anyone even slightly afraid of flying) and "Air Disasters" by Stanley Stewart.
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Posted on: 4:57 pm on Sep. 16, 2007
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Report from The Nation dated Monday 17 September 2007 :-
Passenger list of One-Two-Go flight
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PASSENGER MANIFEST
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123 passengers on board Flight OG 269, operated by airline One-Two-Go
Important telephone numbers:
One-Two-Go Hotline 1126
Bangkok Phuket Hospital 076-254421-9
Siriroj Hospital 076-249400
Vajira Phuket Hospital 076-361234
Mission Phuket Hospital 076-237220-9
Thalang Hospital 076-311033
British Embassy's emergency centre 02-3058333
* denotes those confirmed to have survived and/or hospitalised.
1. Mr Werner Adelhardt
2. Ms Lily Alon
3. Mr Alain Bembaron
4. Mrs Brigitte Bino
5. Mr Itzhak Biton
6. Mr Alexius Boerkamp*
7. Mr Jeanmarie Bonachera
8. Mrs Josiane Bonachera
9. Mr Chawapon Boonmeechai
10. Mrs Wanaporn Boonsung
For further details, please refer to :-
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=121729
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Posted on: 5:47 pm on Sep. 16, 2007
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Report from The Nation dated Monday 17 September 2007 :-
Survivors recall chilling plane crash
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Canadian tourist Mildred Furlong thought she would be spending a few days sunbathing on the beaches of one of Thailand’s most popular resort islands.
Instead, she found herself groping in the dark in a burning One-Two-Go Airlines plane yesterday, struggling to escape as smoke and flames filled the cabin. A passenger in front of her was covered in flames and another - bleeding from the head - was yelling: “My boyfriend. My boyfriend.”
“As soon as we hit, everything went dark and everything fell,” said Furlong, who was among 42 survivors of the flight from Bangkok. Eighty-eight others died, most of them foreign tourists.
“I felt faint. You felt like you were going to pass out right away,” she said at the Bangkok Hospital Phuket, where she was being treated for minor injuries. “I’ve never felt anything this intense.”
Furlong, a 23-year-old waitress from Prince George, British Columbia, said the plane attempted to land once, ascended and then came down hard a second time and crash landed. As smoke filled the cabin, Furlong climbed through a broken window and onto a wing, where she and others slid to safety.
“It still doesn’t feel real,” she said.
Parinwit Chusaeng, another survivor, told a TV channel that he ran from the plane in panic as fires broke out.
“I saw passengers engulfed in fire as I stepped over them on the way out of the plane,” Parinwit said. “I was afraid that the airplane was going to explode, so I ran away.”
Parinwit said he looked back and saw fires raging in the front and back of the plane. “I saw the plane in flames and there was a lot of smoke,” he said.
Furlong said most survivors waited about 45 minutes before buses came and took them away to hospitals. On the way, one man sobbed uncontrollably but most others just stood in stunned silence, she said.
She eventually met up with her Thai boyfriend, who was on the flight and also survived with minor injuries.
“We looked at each other and we thought our Gods are both looking after us,” she said. “We are so lucky to be alive.”
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Posted on: 5:50 pm on Sep. 16, 2007
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Monday 17 September 2007 :-
88 die in Phuket air crash
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A One-Two-Go Airlines passenger jet with 130 people aboard crashed and burned while landing at Phuket Airport in foul weather Sunday afternoon. Phuket deputy governor Vorapot Rajsima said 88 people were confirmed dead.
There were at least 42 survivors, including 11 Thais, six Irish nationals, six Britons, three Australians, three Iranians, two Swedes, one German and a Dutch national. They were admitted to various Phuket hospitals.
"Five are in critical condition. Some have burns to 60 percent of their body," Bangkok Phuket hospital coordinator Piyannooch Anantakdee told the Reuters news agency.
The pilot and co-pilot were said to be among the survivors. (see updated passenger manifest in our Breaking News section)
"Nearly half the passengers were foreign tourists," said one survivor, Nong Khaonuan. In a TV interview, he said. "I've flown on many airplanes before and I can say there was something strange about our landing. We seemed to drop down too fast."
There was hope that many survived after TiTV showed two foreigners being carried away to local hospital. But the fire that ripped through the crashed aircraft apparently claimed dozens of lives.
The MD82 plane of the budget airline skidded off the runway after landing on a flight from Don Muang airport in Bangkok, and crashed into trees, bursting into fire.
"The fire was throughout the airplane," said Phuket Deputy Governor Worraphot Ratsrimaa. "We expect that at least 90 per cent of the passengers died."
"The plane was landing and slid off the runway. We are rescuing people and carrying injured people to hospitals," said Pol Lt Sokchai Limcharoen, a police officer in the area in an early report.
Chaisak Angsuwan, director general of the Air Transport Authority of Thailand said the aircraft broke in two as it attempted to land at Phuket airport in bad weather.
Chaisak said that there was heavy rain when flight OG269 of parent Orient Thai Airways traveling from Bangkok's Don Muang airport to Phuket attempted to make a landing. Planes in both Orient Thai and One-Two-Go livery use the OG flight identifier.
"The visibility was poor as the pilot attempted to land. He decided to make a go-around but the plane lost balance and crashed,". he said. "The plane then fell onto the runway and broke into two. It is expected that there will be deaths.
"The airplane asked to land but due to the weather in Phuket -strong wind and heavy rain -maybe the pilot did not see the runway clearly," said Chaisak.
Witnesses said the airline was using its usual MD-82 twin-engine passenger jet aircraft, a model of the McDonnell-Douglas DC9. One-Two-Go owned seven such planes, which it used for frequent flights around Thailand, including six each day from Bangkok to Phuket and return.
Airport officials and rescue workers are still working to help the victims from the plane which caught fire after it crashlanded and skidded off the runway.
Authorities said there were 123 passengers and five crew members on board when the plane crashed at about 3:35pm Sunday afternoon.
Weather in Phuket has been bad for several days, with thunderstorms and high wind gusts at times.
Important telephone numbers:
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One-Two-Go Hotline 1126
Bangkok Phuket Hospital 076-254421-9
Siriroj Hospital 076-249400
Vajira Phuket Hospital 076-361234
Mission Phuket Hospital 076-237220-9
Thalang Hospital 076-311033
British Embassy's emergency centre 02-3058333
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Posted on: 5:52 pm on Sep. 16, 2007
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Monday 17 September 2007 :-
Survivors squeeze through holes, windows
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Phuket - As panic-stricken survivors scrambled from the burning plane, one aged couple jumped from a window and others squeezed out through a split in the twisted and broken fuselage of One-Two-Go flight OG 269. All told, 42 passengers managed to escape from the blazing wreck at Phuket airport.
Rescue teams carried scores of charred bodies to nearby hospitals for identification.
''Most of the dead were still in their seats and had their safety belts on,'' said Chalermkiat, a rescuer who searched the front section of the plane for survivors and bodies.
The passengers had fastened their seat belts to prepare for landing and most never had a chance to take them off and get to the emergency doors.
The tragedy happened so quickly. The plane appeared to lose equilibrium, veered off the runway, crashed against an earth wall and burst into flames.
The impact knocked most of the passengers unconscious. Those still able to move staggered out of the burning, smoking wreckage of the plane through holes in the fuselage or from emergency windows.
''I took my unconscious wife and jumped out of an [emergency] window,'' said Nong Khaonuan, 57, whose ear was torn and his shoulder injured.
''When I looked back I saw only flames,'' Mr Nong said.
''I don't think anyone could have survived in the front section of the plane which took the heaviest blow in the crash.''
Ambulances and emergency units took almost an hour to reach the airport because of the heavy rain and the long drive from Muang Phuket.
''It took about an hour to reach the injured,'' Mr Nong's son, Tanawat Fongsrisin, confirmed.
John O'Donnell, an Irish tourist, said he and his friend escaped through an emergency door. He had burns on his back and legs.
He said his friend was being treated at a hospital.
A Thai passenger, Chawalert Jitjamnong, who suffered back injury fleeing the chaos, said the plane's captain had notified the passengers the ''weather was very bad and he could see nothing'' only a short time before he lost control of the plane and it went skidding off the runway.
''I just followed the light and finally got out through a crack under the plane's wing,'' he told TITV.
Other airlines suspended their Phuket flights after the crash.
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Posted on: 6:03 pm on Sep. 16, 2007
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Monday 17 September 2007 :-
Search for crash cause begins
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PHUKET - Besides looking for clues as to why the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 veered off the runway and smashed into a densely wooded embankment, rescue workers still have to recover five bodies from the wreckage.
Both pilots were killed, deputy transport minister Sansern Wong-Chaum said, but 42 people survived a crash that is likely to raise more safety questions for the dozens of budget carriers that have sprung up across Asia in the last decade.
Dr Charnsilp Wacharajira, who carried out autopsies on some of those killed, said they died of traumatic injuries to the head, indicating that the impact of the crash rather than the fire killed them.
Thailand's Public Health and Interior ministries issued lists of almost 30 foreign survivors.
Many of those injured had broken legs and similar injuries from jumping from the burning plane, Piyanooch Ananpakdee, a coordinator at Bangkok Phuket Hospital, said.
Five survivors were in critical condition, with burns to 60 per cent of their bodies, hospital officials said.
Fourteen Thais, eight Britons, five Iranians and four Germans were among the survivors, they said.
One-Two-go Airlines flight OG269 was carrying 123 passengers and seven crew members to Phuket from Bangkok, said Monrudee Gettuphan, spokeswoman for Airports of Thailand. There were 78 foreigners on board, she said.
The "black box" flight data recorder has been recovered and much of the investigation is likely to focus on the weather conditions as the plane, flown by Bangkok-based low-cost operator One-Two-Go, was coming in to land.
"We will have to wait for the actual cause of the accident. We will send the black box to the United States. It will take one week to analyse," Mr Sansern said.
Survivors spoke of torrential rain and trees bent over in the wind, and several accounts suggested the pilot attempted to land, but then aborted.
"The pilot tried to bring the plane back up. He started to turn right and made a sharp turn right and then the plane went into the embankment," Millie Furlong, a 23-year-old waitress from Canada, said in hospital.
"I saw the grass and knew we were going to crash. It was very quick."
Udom Tantiprasongchai, chairman of One-Two-Go parent company Orient Thai Airlines, said the pilot was experienced.
"Police will set up an investigating committee to find out what actually caused the accident. What we need to do right now is take care of the injured," he told reporters on Sunday evening. "I'm deeply sorry about this tragic event."
Despite a number of crashes and scares, most recently in Indonesia, analysts say there is no hard evidence to suggest budget carriers are more accident-prone than their full-service competitors.
The deputy governor of Phuket province, Vorapot Rajsima, said the dead included French, German, Israeli, Australian and British nationals.
It is not immediately clear how many foreigners had died, he said.
"One French national has died and two others have been injured," said French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner in a statement, expressing his condolences to the families of the victims.
He said his ministry was in touch with Thai officials to determine if there were any more French victims, "and if that is the case, we will aid their families."
Israeli military radio reported that eight Israelis were missing and two injured in the crash.
The report was not immediately confirmed by the Israeli foreign ministry.
An Israeli police team specialising in identifying bodies was to leave on Monday for Bangkok, the police said.
Officials said the plane had broken in two when it touched down on the isle, known as the Pearl of the Andaman.
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Posted on: 6:11 pm on Sep. 16, 2007
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Report from The Nation dated Monday 17 September 2007 :-
50 Foreigners among 87 killed in Phuket plane crash
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Eighty-seven people, 50 of them foreigners, were killed when a budget commercial airliner crashlanded at Phuket Airport in bad weather conditions Sunday afternoon, officials said.
Forty-three people survived in the first local disaster for lowcost airline industry since its introduction a few years ago.
One Two Go Flight OG 269 lost balance while touching down and skidded off the runway. The MD82 plane slammed into trees and an earth embankment, exploding and breaking in two, witnesses and officials said.
Health Minister Mongkol Na Songkhla said 87 people died and 43 people survived. There were a total of 130 passenger and crew on the plane.
Of the 43 survivors, 15 are Thais and 28 foreigners.
The verification of identities of both the dead and injured were far from complete at press time.
Deputy Transport Minister Sansern Wongchaum earlier said that there were 78 foreigners on board. Tourists from Australia, Austria, Britain, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Sweden and the Netherlands were being treated at main provincial hospitals.
A surviving Thai passenger said the plane "landed hard" and "bounced" and then skidded off the runway. Air Transport Department chief Chiasak Angkauwan said, "the airplane requested to land but due to the weather in Phuket strong wind and heavy rain maybe the pilot did not see the runway clearly."
One survivor told of a fast drop in altitude by the airplane and sudden brief jerk upward. He said they plane then crashlanded and exploded. He saw several fellow passengers on fire.
It was not immediately clear if the pilot, who was reportedly killed, was attempting to pull the aircraft up in the last minute when it crashlanded. He had reportedly been allowed to circle the airport to wait for improvement in weather conditions.
An official at the Phuket Airport control tower, who asked not to be named, said the pilot had been told of bad weather conditions, especially very strong winds. Shortly before the illfated flight crashlanded, another lowcost airliner originating from Hong Kong had successfully touched down, he said.
Officials said victims could have died on impact, or from suffocation or fire resulting from explosions. According to an initial account, the plane's fuselage was torn open in the accident, some of the survivors were those thrown out through the opening.
Flight OG 269, approached the Phuket airport at about 3.40pm from Bangkok. Phuket had earlier been hit by heavy rains.
Eyewitnesses said the impact of the crash caused the plane to break in two and they heard loud explosions.
Rescue teams and navy personnel were involved in the rescue operation. Bodies were piled up in the smouldering wreckage. All flights in and out of the Phuket airport have been cancelled.
An Irish tourist, identifying himself only as "John", said he was on board the flight. He and his friend survived with bruises all over their bodies.
"We sat on the 18th row. The weather was real bad and there were lots of unusual noises during the landing. Something was obviously wrong [during the landing]," he said. He and his friend escaped through the emergency door.
Meanwhile Transportation Minister Thira Haochareon said Phuket International Airport was temporary closed after the crash. He said the body of the aircraft hit the runway and was on fire. The air traffic control source said the aircraft's right wing made contact with the runway at the initial stage of the accident.
MacDonnel Douglas MD82 has a passenger capacity of 175 seats, with flight ceiling of 37,000 feet and flight distance of 3,500 kilometres.
AFP reported that the accident was witnessed from the sky. It said Marine Keisel, from Paris, was aboard a plane behind the one that crashed and saw the accident happen.
"When the plane landed it caught fire," she told AFP at Phuket airport. "We could see the fire coming out of it. It was chaos inside my plane."
Authorities say they will not make any assumption regarding the cause of the tragedy until investigation is completed, although bad weather was obviously a problem at the airport over the weekend. An American pilot who landed just prior to the One Two Go plane reportedly told CNN that the landing was one of the toughest he had ever undertaken - indicating that the weather conditions were severe.
Like several other airlines, One Two Go has reportedly undergone manpower changes. The boss of One Two Go and Orient Thai budget airlines, Udom Tantisprongchai, is said to have replaced several of his Western and Thai pilots - allegedly to cut costs and reduce the chance of work disputes - with crews with Indonesian and Philippine pilots.
However, authorities insisted it was too soon to presume anything, including whether human errors played a part in the tragedy.
Certain reports said the pilot was given permission to abort the landing in the final minutes.
Communications between the pilot and the air traffic controller and their judgements - information contained in the black box - could shed some light on the tragedy. Some aviation sources said an instruction or decision to land in Krabi could have been taken in extreme weather conditions.
Last night a swarm of media had descended on the office of One Two Go, near the intersection of Asoke and Sukhumvit. With the high death toll and the fact that it took place in the heart of Thailand's tourism industry, the issue of whether or not there were human errors involved could become hot up very soon, the aviation sources said.
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Posted on: 6:21 pm on Sep. 16, 2007
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Report from The Nation dated Monday 17 September 2007 :-
Full list of passengers and list of passengers injured in Phuket Airport's plane crash
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Update - List of passengers injured in the plane crash at Phuket Airport treated at Siriroj Phuket Hospital and Krungthep Phuket Hospital
For further details, please refer to :-
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007...s_30049142.php
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Posted on: 6:23 pm on Sep. 16, 2007
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