Thursday, May 22, 2008

One 2 Go Airlines adds a new aircraft to its fleet



One 2 Go Airlines, a low-cost airline based in Bangkok, Thailand unveiled their new aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 which was designed to handle a capacity of around 270 seats and max take-off weight of 140,000 lb (64,000 kg).

On 16 September 2007, an ill-fated One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269, an MD-82 flying from Bangkok with 123 passengers and 7 crew members, crashed in strong winds and heavy rain after attempting to land at Phuket International Airport. The aircraft was mostly destroyed in the blazing inferno that soon developed after the crash as the fuselage tore in two. 90 people were killed most of whom were foreigners. You can read about the Phuket Plane Crash here.

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