This video footage from news source Associated Press (AP) shows rescue teams hosing down the burning wreckage of the One-Two-Go Boeing MD-82 that crashed at Phuket airport yesterday (16 September).
The Director General of Thai Transport Authority said that visibility was "poor and the pilot attempted a go-around".
AP's report says that a survivor "knew the aircraft was in trouble before the flight landed because it was making a banging noise."
French investigators probing a fatal EgyptAir Airbus A320 crash in May 2016 have highlighted the potential risk of smoking in the cockpit, even though they could not establish whether a lit cigarette sparked an oxygen-fuelled fire on the jet. Investigation authority BEA has recommended that the European Union Aviation Safety ...
While French investigators believe an intense oxygen-fuelled cockpit fire brought down an EgyptAir Airbus A320 eight years ago, they have yet to determine fully the reasons for the oxygen leak and pinpoint the source of ignition. Investigation authority BEA has dismissed the Egyptian air accident commission’s official explanation – detonation ...
After an eight-year inquiry, Egyptian investigators have controversially concluded that ignition of explosive material behind the cockpit of an EgyptAir Airbus A320 resulted in a fire and the loss of the aircraft, an explanation dismissed by French counterparts. The twinjet – operating from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Cairo on ...
