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PHUKET, THAILAND - The pilot of a passenger plane that crashed while landing at Thailand's resort island of Phuket, killing 89 people, had been warned of a treacherous wind shear at the airport, but he decided to land anyway.

Wind shear is a sudden change in either wind speed or direction in an aircraft's flight path. It can destabilize a plane, as pilots compensate for the condition, which can then suddenly disappear and put the aircraft out of control.

There were 123 passengers and seven crew members abroad One-Two-Go Airlines flight OG268 - McDonnell Douglas MD-82 when it crashed Sunday while apparently trying to abort a landing at Phuket airport.

Ground officials informed the Indonesian pilot about wind shear at the airport but he decided to land anyway.

The last word the pilot said was 'landing."

'The officials have found the black boxes and will send them for analysis to the United States. It could take a year to determine the causeof the crash.

The pilot had reportedly asked to abandon the landing and circle around again because he could not see the runway, but the plane was already too low.

It was hit by wind shear or strong winds and he didn't have time to react is the speculation of some experts.  The bigger question is whether the airport should have been allowing planes to land in such weather.

In March this year, an Indonesian jetliner battled sudden wind shear before crash-landing, damaging an emergency door that may have prevented some passengers from escaping after it erupted in flames.

Twenty-one people died, but 119 others survived after scrambling through exits at the back of the Garuda Airlines Boeing 737-400.