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Date:
Tue, 18 September 2007 12:04 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Arief Mulyadi Down at Thailand Plane Crash With 88 Others Died
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A member of the Indonesian Air Force
holds a photo of Arief Mulyadi, the Indonesian pilot who was in
command of the One-Two-Go Airlines plane that crash-landed Sunday on
Thailand's resort island of Phuket killing at least 90 people,
Monday Sept. 17, 2007, in Jakarta, Indonesia. Dozens of new air
carriers have been popping up across Asia to meet the industry's
booming demand, but a string of deadly accidents has raised fresh
concerns about safety, from pilot shortages to the quality of budget
airlines.
(AP Photo) AP - Mon Sep
17, 6:45 AM ET |
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Rescue workers survey the site of a
plane crash at Phuket's airport September 17, 2007. A budget
airliner filled with foreign tourists crashed on the Thai resort
island of Phuket on Sunday, killing 88 people as it broke up and
burst into flames while trying to land in heavy rain, officials
said.
REUTERS/Chaiwat
Subprasom (THAILAND)
Reuters - Sun Sep 16,
11:34 PM ET |
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Thai rescue workers work at the scene of
the One-Two-Go Airlines plane crash in Phuket ,Thailand, on Monday,
Sept. 17, 2007. The passenger plane that crashed on Thailand's
resort island of Phuket Sunday killed at least 91 people, including
55 foreigners, an airline official said Monday.
(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
AP - Mon Sep 17, 12:32
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Christians and Muslims gather at Phuket,
Thailand, airport for religious services Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007,
for those killed in the crash of a Thai One-Two-Go airlines plane.
Flight OG269 crashed Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007, while attempting to
land during a driving rainstorm. At least 89 people were killed in
the crash.
(AP Photo/David
Longstreath)
AP - Mon Sep 17, 10:22
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Relatives arrive to identify the bodies
of victims in the One-Two-Go Airlines plane crash, in Phuket
Thailand on Monday, Sept. 17, 2007. Investigators searched Monday
through charred remains of the plane that crashed and killed at
least 90 people, mostly foreigners, on Thailand's resort island of
Phuket, while an airline official said wind shear may have doomed
the flight.
(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
AP - Mon Sep 17, 3:38 AM
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Thai forensic workers inspect bodies of
passengers of Thai budget carrier One-To-Go MD-82 plane after it
crashed at Phuket airport in Phuket island, 16 September.
Investigators scoured the debris for clues Monday after the crash
killed 89 people in Thailand's worst air disaster in a decade.
(AFP/Thadilok Klongjia)
AFP - Mon Sep 17, 1:37
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Relatives of a victim of
the crash cry at Phuket airport, Thailand Sunday Sept. 16, 2007. A
plane carrying many foreign tourists to one of Thailand's most
popular resort islands crashed while landing in torrential rains
Sunday, killing at least 87 people and injuring 43, officials
said.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) AP - Sun Sep 16, 1:14 PM ET |
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Plane crash survivor Chatree Suksawat,
26, from Thailand, who is suffering from back injuries speaks at the
Bangkok Phuket Hospital, Monday Sept. 17, 2007 in Phuket, Thailand.
Authorities on Monday found the two flight data recorders from a
plane that crashed and killed at least 90 people, mostly foreigners,
on Thailand's resort island of Phuket, while an airline official
said wind shear may have doomed the flight. The budget One-Two-Go
Airlines flight was carrying 123 passengers and seven crew from
Bangkok to Phuket when it skidded off a runway Sunday while landing
in driving wind and rain, catching fire and engulfing some
passengers in flames as others kicked out windows to escape.
(AP Photo/Audra Ang)
AP - Mon Sep 17, 5:09 AM
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An injured foreign
passenger from a plane crash is treated at a hospital in Phuket,
southern Thailand Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007. A passenger plane with 123
passengers and 5 crew members crashed while attempting to land at
southern Thailand's Phuket airport Sunday afternoon, possibly
leaving some people dead and about 20 hurt, an official said.
(AP
Photo/Daily News)
AP
- Sun Sep 16, 8:11 AM ET
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Marcel Squinobal, 33,
from Austria, a survivor of the One-Two-Go Airlines plane crash, who
is suffering from a bruised rib and back speaks to a reporter at the
Bangkok Phuket Hospital, Monday Sept. 17, 2007, in Phuket, Thailand.
Authorities on Monday found the two flight data recorders from the
plane that crashed and killed at least 90 people, mostly foreigners,
on Thailand's resort island of Phuket, while an airline official
said wind shear may have doomed the flight. The budget One-Two-Go
Airlines flight was carrying 123 passengers and seven crew from
Bangkok to Phuket when it skidded off a runway Sunday while landing
in driving wind and rain, catching fire and engulfing some
passengers in flames as others kicked out windows to escape.
(AP
Photo/Audra Ang)
AP
- Mon Sep 17, 4:57 AM ET |
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Canadian Millie Furlong,
23, is seen during an interview at Phuket Hospital on September 16,
2007. Furlong and her Thai boyfriend are counting their blessings
having walked away virtually unscratched from a plane crash that
killed 88 people on the resort island of Phuket.
REUTERS/Stringer (THAILAND)
Reuters - Sun Sep 16, 6:43 PM ET |
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Graphic
giving details of the plane crash at Thailand's Phuket airport.
Crash investigators sifted through the charred debris of the Thai
jet as anguished relatives desperately sought news of loved ones
after Thailand's worst air disaster in a decade.
(AFP Graphic)
AFP Graphic - Mon Sep 17, 10:41 AM ET
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Sunday afternoon 16 September 2007 at
home I scrawled the scratches of my
previous letters, about Tangkuban Perahu, about Anita Roddick
died, about Paris Hilton's Lady Di's hairstyle.
Inevitably came some strong doubts in my
mind, about what was I doing, writing all those things that seems to
be related with me, what if all those things were merely
coincidences, have I gone crazy that I needed an urgent counseling,
who am I anyway.
A few hours later on TV there was the
news about a plane crash in Phuket, Thailand, after attempting to
land in bad weather. I thought, it has nothing to do with me,
especially since it was still unconfirmed about whether there were any
Indonesians among the casualties.
Later on at night, additional
information came on TV, there was an Indonesian among the
casualties, and he was the pilot. And his name,.............Arief
Mulyadi. A name that sounds familiar to me since Arief is also the
name of my former neighbor's husband, Anita's husband. Anita, the woman
that I just wrote a few hours earlier in my scratches of
letters..............and the plane crashed just a few hours after I
felt
strong doubts about what was I doing, writing all those things that
seems to be related with me, what if all those things were merely
coincidences, have I gone crazy that I needed an urgent counseling,
who am I anyway........
As usual, I think I need to take
responsibility by making clarification here about the possible
relationship of this plane crash with my self. There could be some kind of admonition
related with my previous letter "Viravaidya's
Award Could Inspire a Test for Me", about a Thailand man who
received an award from your foundation. If such related "test"
would really take place, I should make sure it would not be about my
going down for worldly matters, instead it should be to strengthen
my consent to move up to the eternity, to the heaven above. And of
course the term "move up" here is not about politics.
My deepest condolences to the victims of
Phuket Thailand plane crash.
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