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Geoff Easdown

September 17, 2007 = 06:06pm

THE Thai airliner = involved in=20 the Phuket air disaster was very old in terms of aircraft = years.

 

Built by then US airframe maker McDonnell-Douglass in 1983, the MD82 = had=20 flown 64,679 hours and completed 34,202 landings.

Branded with the serial number 49183, the 130-seat twin-jet was the = 1129th=20 McDonnell-Douglass built, according to its official service record kept = by=20 Boeing.

It was flying well beyond an age when other carriers would have = declared the=20 machine obsolete.

Qantas offloads aged aircraft after 13 years of flying.

Emirates Airlines sells its image on not having a plane more than = five years=20 old.

The One-Two-Go Airlines MD82 is believed to have done most of its = flying in=20 the United States where MD80 and 90 series jets operated on regional = feeder=20 services.

Three MD82's, registered numbers VH-LNJ, VH-LNK, VH-LNL and two = MD83s,=20 VH-LNH, VH-LNI, operated briefly in Australia by illfated start-up = carrier=20 Compass MarkII.

The airline collapsed within a year before it took delivery of two = late=20 models, the MD83.

One-Two-Go Airlines, which launched in 2002, had bought the aicraft=20 secondhand and it is still uncertain how many owners the plane had.

Boeing, which bought the troubled McDonnell Douglass Corporation in = 1997,=20 stopped construction of the company's range of passenger jets after the=20 merger.

Official records show that Sunday's Thai disaster was the 13th crash=20 involving an MD80 series aircraft since 1981 in which lives were = lost.

Seven of crashes were attributed to poor visibility due to storms or = fog on=20 landing.

A similar incident to the Thai disaster occurred at Solo, Indonesia, = on=20 November 30 2004 where a LionAir MD82 skidded off the runway in heavy = rain and=20 broke up.

Twenty-six lives were lost in that incident among the seven crew = members and=20 146 passengers.

 

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