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
Letter of Forty-Two Letter of Forty-Two The Letter of Forty-Two () was an open letter signed by forty-two Russian literati, aimed at Russian society, the president and government, in reaction to the events of September – October 1993. It was published in the newspaper "Izvestia" on 5 October 1993 under the title "Writers demand decisive actions of the government." The letter contains the following seven demands: Communist "Pravda" reacted by publishing a letter by three Soviet dissidents – Andrey Sinyavsky, Vladimir Maximov and Pyotr Abovin-Yegides – calling for Boris Yeltsin's immediate resignation. It said among other things: "Nezavisimaya Gazeta"'s 2nd editor-in-chief Victoria Shokhina,