269, the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 HS-OMG carrying 123 passengers and 7 crew members, strikes an embankment adjacent to the runway while making a failed attempt to initiate a go-around at Phuket International Airport in Phuket, Thailand. It crashes and catches fire, killing 89 of the people on board. 21 September – Fifteen-year-old stowaway Andrey Shcherbakov survives a flight in Russia from Perm to Moscow inside a Boeing 737's wheel well, but suffers severe frostbite. 24 September – A Free Airlines Let L-410 Turbolet carrying seven people crashes on landing in Malemba-Nkulu Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo, coming to rest in a cemetery. Five of the people on board suffer serious injuries, and one of the pilots dies shortly afterward. October 4 October – An Antonov An-26 leased from Africa One, operated by El Sam Airlift, and chartered by Malift Air loses a propeller shortly after taking off from N'djili Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. One of its wings strikes an obstacle and detaches before the aircraft crashes into a market and comes to rest in a house. The crash kills 20 people on the aircraft, leaving one or two survivors, and 31 people on the ground. At least 30 more people suffer injuries. The country's president, Joseph Kabila, fires its transport minister after the accident.. 15 October – Airbus delivers its first A380 superjumbo jet. Singapore Airlines takes delivery of it. 26 October – Philippine Airlines Flight 475, an Airbus A320-214, overruns the runway on landing at Bancasi Airport in Butuan, the Philippines, and is destroyed when it plows into the tropical rainforest beyond the end of the runway. All 154 people on board survive. November 2 November Air Asia X, a Malaysian low-cost, long-haul airline and sister company of AirAsia, begins flight operations. Its first flight is from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Gold Coast Airport in Australia. An unmanned aerial vehicle fires missiles at a compound outside Miran Shah, North Waziristan, Pakistan, killing five Islamic militants and injuring six other people. The US denies involvement. 15 November – Delegates to the World Radiocommunication Conference 2007 declare the United States Governments use of airplanes to beam the signals of Radio Martí and TV Martí into Cuba to be illegal, stating "A radio broadcasting station that functions on board an aircraft and transmits only to the territory of another administration without its