Plane breaks in two after crash at Phuket Airport

[simong]

An airliner exploded and broke in two after it slid off the runway and crashed into nearby walls at Phuket airport on Sunday afternoon.

Some reports put the death toll at about 60, but this has yet to be confirmed. The nationalities of those onboard is also unknown, but Phuket is a highly popular destination for overseas tourists.

Information now coming in said the plane, which was being used by local budget travel company, One-to-Go Airline, had 123 passengers and five crew.

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"The airplane asked to land but due to the weather in Phuket - strong wind and heavy rain - maybe the pilot did not see the runway clearly," civil aviation official Chiasak Angkauwan told TiTV news channel.

He said the plane was an MD-80

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[lee_apromise]

One-Two-Go crashed landing at Phuket

According to varies newspapers, one-two-go MD80 crashed landing at phuket airport some time ago, the aircraft broken into half. Many casualties.

I hope not many people died.

[sqforever]

The story has been updated. The pilot was landing in stormy weather and tried to do a go-around, the aircraft lost balance when trying to pull back into the air and hit the runway. It split in two and 100 are now feared dead. RIP

[singaporu_kooku]

According to some of the news I read, the survivors said that there's a very strong a wind gust as they exit the aircrafts and apparently, it was even very hard to walk against the wind. The weather can be to blame, numbers died are yet to be confirmed though. RIP.

[jjpb3]

What terrible news. RIP, and comfort and solace to the families of the deceased.

[nykelaz]

It's an MD-82. RIP.

[polarbear]

This sounds bad. From the looks, it looked like a bad landing by the pilot?

[KeithMEL]

I hope there aren't too many casualties.

RIP...

[SuperJonJon]

In today's papers(Bangkok Post), it has been reported that 88 people confirmed dead. 42 are in hospital. Apparently the plane's captain had notified the passenger the "weather was very bad and he could see nothing".

[The High Flyer]

It's an MD-82. RIP.

The registration of the aircraft was HS-OMG.

[The High Flyer]

This aircraft was delivered to Trans World Airlines in December 1983, then transferred to American Airlines in December 2001. It joined One-Two-Go Airline's fleet in March 2007.