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About this media| title: | Moments after plane crash in phuket! | | desc: | Moments After Plane Crash in Phuket!
.Air traffic controllers had warned the
Indonesian pilot of dangerous conditions
as the plane carrying 130 passengers and
crew came in to land in heavy rain
Sunday. A total of 88 people died after
Flight OG 269 crashed on landing at the
Thai resort of Phuket. The jet, carrying
a number of foreigners form the US,
France, Sweden, Iran and Australia,
crashed after hitting the runway heavily
in strong winds and heavy rain.
The
Thai airliner involved in the Phuket air
disaster was very old in terms of
aircraft years. Official records show
that Sunday's Thai disaster was the 13th
crash involving an MD80 series aircraft
since 1981 in which lives were
lost.
Passengers and crew, including
dozens of European touristss, rushed for
the plane's emergency exits, trying to
escape as flames spread through the
aircraft.
Built by then US airframe
maker McDonnell-Douglass in 1983, the
MD82 had flown 64,679 hours and
completed 34,202 landings. It was flying
well beyond an age when other carriers
would have declared the machine
obsolete. Emirates Airlines sells its
image on not having a plane more than
five years old. The One-Two-Go Airlines
MD82 is believed to have done most of
its flying in the United States where
MD80 and 90 series jets operated on
regional feeder services. One-Two-Go
Airlines, which launched in 2002, had
bought the aicraft secondhand and it is
still uncertain how many owners the
plane had.
A similar incident to the
Thai disaster occurred at Solo,
Indonesia, on November 30 2004 where a
LionAir MD82 skidded off the runway in
heavy rain and broke up. | | tags | moments after crash Thailand Phuket crash Thai jet plane disaster rain storm pilot flight og 269 accident one two go md80 |
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