Phuket Air Crash: Law Suits Fly As Experts Dither

The crash of One Two Go Flight 269 disturbed a peaceful Phuket Sunday in 2007, just as the tsunami had done a few years previously. Now the tragedy seems destined for extensive international court action in search of justice and the truth.

Large lawsuits now complicate the circumstances surrounding the crash on Phuket of the flight from Bangkok last September 16.

We knew they were coming. The only question was whether the lawsuits would beat the release of the full, official report on the tragedy.

Now we know: the law firm has won. The problem is that because the legal action has been announced first, the official findings, when they come, will now be subjected to increased speculation.

And there is likely to be extended debate about what happened, perhaps even two versions of events.

A spokesperson for Ribbeck Law Chartered, a Chicago-based law firm specialising in aviation disasters, told Phuketwan on July 12 that the firm has actually done its own investigation of the crash, employing its own aviation experts to define precisely what happened.

--Full report at www.phuketwan.com