In the wake of the terrible One-Two-Go plane crash in Phuket, readers may be interested in the history of similiar events in Thailand. The Aviation Safety Network has 81 incidents in its database on Thailand, many of them minor. The last major passenger airline crash was in 1998 – the Thai Airways crash near Surat Thani which claimed 101 lives. (For information on accidents involving Thai airlines, not necessarily in Thailand, see here.)
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September 17th, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 3 Comments
Tags: Thailand
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1 Lleij Samuel Schwartz // Sep 17, 2007 at 7:42 pm
I would like to cite another site of interest; if you want to read analysis, by some knowledgable people, of what could have caused the accident, I would recommend lurking in the forums of Thai Flight Simulator. (See these two threads: Thread One and Thread Two.)
2 Darling // Sep 18, 2007 at 2:47 am
I tried to go to the Thai Flight Simulator website but couldn’t understand their discussion since most of it are in thai characters.
3 Lleij Samuel Schwartz // Sep 19, 2007 at 2:14 am
re: Darling: Well, check out this English website instead: Professional Pilots Rumor Network. There are some posts from an anonymous One-Two-Go pilot that are very, very frightening.
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