Budget Jet crashed in Thailand

last SG · 2007-09-16T23:44:04+00:00

gonna take few weeks for the blackbox data to be interpreted.

gigabyte14 SG

Laughing

Superbus SG

The triple jet plane you took was probably, and most likely an MD-11.

The MD-82 is a rear twin-engined plane with a T-tail.

Superbus SG

I respect your opinion. But your statement does not sound fair to the budget airlines in general.

It just happens that the aircraft that crashed belongs to a budget carrier. Remember SQ 006? It crashed during a typhoon, and belonged to one of the most reputable carriers in the world. But to say then that SIA isn't safe is unfair. Same goes to the budget carriers around the world. Budget carriers are relatively safe. But there are certain carriers that you may need to keep out.

LyonK SG

hands up those who like AirAsia Laughing

monoslayer SG

which airline huh?

LyonK SG

wasnt there a silkair that crashed in thai/indon? around 6 years ago?

^tamago^ SG

Crying or Very sad Laughing

Superbus SG

One-Two-GO Airlines, a budget offshoot subsidiary of Orient Thai Airways.

Superbus SG

SilkAir Boeing 737-300. Crashed into the Musi River in Palembang, Indonesia. That was in December 1997.

chillz88 SG

always take SIA .. Very Happy

sarius SG

truely a sad accident...

my deepest sympathies and condolences to all those involved...

hope the cause of the error can be found and measures put in place to ensure that it won't happen again...

let's not point our fingers so quickly even before investigations have started.

Delphian SG

These kind of news always wrench my heart... May the Lord watch over the victim's families, they must be devastated... Crying or Very sad

caleb_chiang SG

Erm… Accidents are common…

dreamykite SG

Why the jet breaks into two? Lousy material? Cannot withstand the landing impact? Confused

sarius SG

Quick summary

Eighty-seven passengers and crew are confirmed dead from yesterdays (16 September) crash on landing of a One-Two-Go Boeing MD-82 on the Thai resort island of Phuket.

Rescue officials in Phuket say 87 of the 130 passengers and crew on board the 24-year-old MD-82 are confirmed to have died in the crash while 43 people are being treated in hospital. Some of the survivors have life-threatening injuries.

An official at One-Two-Gos crisis hotline in Bangkok says two of the 43 survivors are cabin crew and the rest are passengers. She says that on board the aircraft were 123 passengers and seven crewmembers, 78 of them foreign nationals. Both pilots and three of the five flight attendants were killed.

The airline official says the MD-82 was operating as flight OG269 from Bangkoks secondary Don Muang airport. It departed Bangkok at around 14:30 and its scheduled arrival time was 15:50.

The aircraft ran off the runway on landing in heavy rain, breaking apart and bursting into flames.

One-Two-Go launched four years ago as Thailands first low-cost carrier, operating MD-80-series and Boeing 747 Classic aircraft on domestic routes. It is a subsidiary of Orient Thai Airlines, which mainly operates international services.

The One-Two-Go official says the MD-82 was registered as HS-OMG. According to Flights ACAS database, HS-OMG was built in November 1983 and was originally operated by the former Trans World Airlines. It had a manufacturers serial number of 49183.

Powered by Pratt & Whitney JT8D-217 engines, the aircraft had only been in service with One-Two-Go since March this year, when it was purchased by parent company Orient Thai.

ACAS shows that as of November last year the aircraft had accumulated nearly 63,000 flight hours and more than 33,000 takeoffs and landings.

CPTMiller SG

condolences to the families of the dead.
Crying or Very sad

Icemoon SG

Got singaporeans or not? Shocked

BadzMaro SG

Well, because i know pilots who pilot them and they tell me about their maintenance issues. Not to mention , when i first flew it... i dont know what happened , there were sounds from the back of the plane , n somemore , it flew into turbulence , i am not talking about frontal.. i am talking about turbulence hitting the back of the plane. Tail end. I thought the plane broke in half and the 3 female passengers beside me started crying and freaking out.... after that.. thats it. I be honest.. i freaked out.. and thought that was it. lol. Now THAT is shocks that shorten ur lifespan!

Thats why to be safe and to have a lower chance of technical failures and sudden mishaps , i prefer NOT to fly budget airlines. After weighting the problems and seeing quite a few budget airline planes crashing around the world.

I know it doesnt sound fair in general to ALL budget airlines, but most of those that crashed due to something wrong with the plane were budget airlines.

Taiwan case for SQ was due to human error on the runway. And its 1 case in the history of SIA right ?

True there are some budge airlines we have to watch out. But to me , if i can , i would fly the normal ones lo.

Rock^Star SG

Now, that's one hell of a "freaking" experience! Laughing Haha.

Air Asia should be alright. Their CEO, Tony Fernandez is too shrewd of a boss to let any incidents happen. What's more they have upgraded a lot of their fleet from 737s to the new Airbus 320. Nice and comfy

Can't say the same for Adam Air and Garuda. Indonesians seem to always have a problem with safety. It's ingrained in their culture.

BadzMaro SG

that has to be one of my MOST shocking moment man. Faced with ppl with parang chop u, still not THAT bad.. can run , fight back or whatever. That one was totally.. HELPLESS..

Not even as bad as when i drift my car almost went over the cliff when back wheels bumped a lump and left the ground!

Ya..Garuda is bad... but AirAsia hopefully lo.. sometimes its up to the person in charge to be cost effective.. or later.. tooo cost effective that it may jeapordise human lives lo.

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