One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 (OG269), a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashed into an embankment beside runway 27 at Phuket International Airport (HKT) bursting into flames upon impact on 16 September 2007, about 15:41 ICT during an attempted go-around after an aborted landing, killing 89 of the 130 persons on board. (One survivor died to burn injuries several days after the crash). OG269 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Bangkok to Phuket, Thailand. A two-year investigation by NTSB resulted in a report largely incorporated into the crash report published by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee of the
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