Officials work in front of the imposing wreckage of One-Two-GO flight 269 in Phuket, Thailand. (AFP) On the 16th of September 2007, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 flying for Thai budget airline One-Two-GO crashed while attempting to land on the resort island of Phuket. As the plane approached the runway in the midst of a powerful thunderstorm, wind shear forced the pilots to abandon the approach, but during the attempt to climb out, the plane lost altitude and smashed into an embankment alongside the runway, tearing the airplane apart and killing 90 of the 130 passengers and crew. At first, wind shear seemed to be the most likely cause of the crash, which took the lives of tourists and crewmembers from at least 13 countries. But it soon became apparent that the sequence of events was actually rooted in the way the pilots executed the go-around. Their tragic errors during the maneuver led investigators to a series of disturbing revelations about One-Two-GO and its parent company Orient Thai — including that airline officials had been lying to the investigation committee in an attempt to throw them off track.