RIP Flight 269 - 12 Years Ago Today

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"Corruption within One-Two-GO Airlines and the Thai Department of Civil Aviation was a factor for crash investigators. A television crew initially learned of fraudulent work rosters for the captain and first officer, obfuscating their illegal work schedule, had been provided to the crash investigators.^[3] The lead Thai Department of Civil Aviation investigator reported that documents he had received from One-Two-GO were fiction. The National Transportation Safety Board report included the true work rosters, obtained by the family of a victim. The NTSB report documented possible check ride fraud among four other One-Two-GO pilots in the months following the crash.^[1]:29[4][5]

 

More than three years after the crash, a British coroner^[6] cited the "flagrant disregard for passenger safety" by the airline and said "the primary failure so far as I am concerned relates to the corporate culture which prevailed both One-Two-GO Airlines and Orient Thai Airlines prior to and following the air crash."

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Two-GO_Airlines_Flight_269