Wind shear probable cause of OG269 crash
BANGKOK (The Nation): Transport Permanent Secretary Chaisawat Kittipornpaiboon today announced that decoding of the One-Two-Go flight OG029 “black box” flight recorder revealed that the plane skidded off the runway and crashed into an escarpment due to bad weather.
As chairman of the air-crash investigation committee, K. Chaisawat said that the flight suffered from wind shear and the captain could not land as planned.
Black box evidence and a review of voice recordings indicate that the captain tried unsuccessfully to pull the plane up before the landing, he said.
The preliminary conclusion was reached after the return of the decoding results of the black box. The decision was also based on witnesses’ accounts.
Ninety passengers were killed but 40 people survived the accident after passengers on one side of the plane managed to open an emergency door and scramble to safety before the fuselage became engulfed in smoke and flames.
