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Ask the pilot: A crash in Thailand raises questions about wind shear, aging planes and the safety of budget airlines

You'd have to call it ironic that two days after I published <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2007/09/14/askthepilot245/">a column on ridiculous airline names,</a> a One-Two-Go Airlines jetliner <a href="http://dir.salon.com/topics/air_disasters/">crashed</a> on a Thai resort island. It would almost be funny, if not for the 89 people who lost their lives. <P>One What Who? Yeah, I'd never heard of it either. Turns out the company is a division of something called Orient Thai Airways, itself an oddly named entity. Orient Thai, a charter outfit, has been around since 1992. It operates a fleet of 10 Boeing 747s. One-Two-Go, its low-fares offshoot, started flying about four years ago. <p>...</p><img src="http://feeds.salon.com/~r/salon/tech/~4/159259541" height="1" width="1"/>

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