What happened with the One-2-Go Phuket crash ?
The crash of a MD-82 in less than clement conditions and the awful loss of life, of only one died that is still awful.
The aircraft appeared to have tried to land during windshear/microburst.
Was the Captain pressured by the airline to land? What was his validations?
What was the situation with crew training ?
A host of questions, have there been any answers?
Have other airlines tried an approach in these conditions and got away with it ?
If in doubt divert ?
This is the only information I have found so far, it was posted 15th October 2007:-
BANGKOK, Oct 12 (TNA) – Analysis of flight and data recorders from the passenger jet operated by Thai budget carrier One-Two-Go which crashed at Phuket last month found that wind shear was the main culprit that caused Thailand's worst air disaster in ten years, according to the country's top investigator.
The budget airline's ill-fated flight OG 268 veered off a runway at Phuket International Airport amid heavy rain and strong crosswinds on September 16. The MD 82 model aircraft broke into two sections before bursting into flame in both wings and the rear section of the broken aircraft, killing 90 people on board, including 53 foreigners.
Chaisawat Kittipornpaiboon, Permanent Secretary for Transport, in his capacity as head of the fact-finding committee, told reporters on Friday that the US experts concluded after thorough analysis of the data retained in two flight and data recorders and circumstantial witnesses that the wind shear presence at the time forced the pilot to pull up the plane before it lost balance and skid off the runway which led to the loss of many lives.
Analysis shows wind shear caused Phuket air crash BANGKOK, Oct 12 (TNA) – Analysis of flight and data recorders from the passenger jet operated by Thai budget carrier One-Two-Go which crashed at Phuket last month found that wind shear was the main culprit that caused Thailand's worst air disaster in ten years, according to the country's top investigator.
Wind shear is the severe movement of winds at different altitudes blowing forcefully in different directions, which causes erratic movement of an aircraft attempting to nivaigate a direct path.
The air disaster is Thailand's worst since a Thai Airways Airbus SAS A310-200 crash in an attempted landing at Surat Thani in December 1998, killing 101 of the 146 people on board. (TNA)