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first of all, I'm really sad about heard and watch this accident. tonight all TV news showing that amateur record from airport.

 

 

did you get a correct information about cause of accident? some of news says aircraft caught fire on air another one says cought fire after crash onto ground!

 

just I guess, if aircraft cought on fire on air, could be bird strikes to one of engines while approaching ?

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Watched TV3 news just now. Post crash scene was recorded on camera by an Australian cameraman. Scores of injured people were taken out, some of them rescuing themselves by walking away from the wreckage. The aircraft was still burning. However some sort of engine sound was still heard (or is it APU)???

 

 

The full footage can be seen at :

 

 

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2b9_1173306001

 

 

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Boeing's statement on the accident:

 

Boeing Statement on Garuda Indonesia Flt. 200 Accident

 

SEATTLE, March 07, 2007 -- Boeing sends deep condolences to the families and friends of those who lost their lives on Garuda Air Flt. 200 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, as well as profound concern for the recovery of those injured. Boeing technical experts have joined members of the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee who are at the accident site.

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UPDATE: the death toll goes up to 49 :blink: :( :

 

KCAL 9 Los Angeles made an error in the report, there is actually 23 people that died (from The Star):

 

Indonesia plane crash kills 23, scores escape

 

By Dwi Prasetyo

 

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - An Indonesian passenger jet overshot the runway and burst into flames on Wednesday as it landed in the cultural capital of Yogyakarta, but most of the 140 people on board survived.

 

Dozens of passengers leapt from the national carrier Garuda Airline plane's emergency exits into surrounding rice paddy fields to escape the inferno, which reduced the plane to a smouldering wreck of twisted metal.

 

 

Rescue worker search the wreckage of a Garuda jet at Yogyakarta airport on March 7, 2007. (REUTERS/Dwi Oblo)

Twenty-three people, including two Australians, died in the crash, health ministry national crisis centre chief Rustam Pakaya said in a late afternoon text message to Reuters.

 

Earlier a provincial government official had put the toll at 48, while Garuda subsequently said it was 22.

 

Pujobroto, chief spokesman for Garuda, said flight GA 200 was a Boeing 737-400 plane carrying 133 passengers and seven crew when it crashed at around 7 a.m. (0000 GMT) after a scheduled flight from Jakarta.

 

One survivor told Reuters that passengers had been warned the flight would be turbulent.

 

"As we approached the ground and I could see roofs from our window, the plane was still swaying and shaking," said Ruth Meigi Panggabean, who works for the aid group World Vision.

 

"Then the plane was slammed to the ground and skidded forward and slammed once again before it came to a stop," she said.

 

The flight was carrying some Australian diplomats, officials and journalists who had been accompanying Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, who was not aboard, on a visit to Indonesia.

 

Downer said five Australians were injured and another four unaccounted for -- an air force liaison staffer, a police officer, an embassy staffer and a journalist.

 

Garuda's media office said the plane carried just eight Australians, as well as two Japanese, two Brunei nationals and seven other foreigners.

 

Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered the chief security minister to investigate "non-technical" matters related to the crash, Cabinet Secretary Sudi Silalahi told reporters.

 

However, Downer and Australian Prime Minister John Howard said they had received no information that would suggest terrorism or sabotage was a factor in the disaster.

 

The head of the national transport safety commission, Tatang Kurniadi, told Elshinta news radio the commission was investigating the disaster.

 

"It's not easy to reach a conclusion on an accident like this. We're looking for evidence such as where the fire had come from," he said.

 

Garuda spokesman Pujobroto said the plane, manufactured in 1992, had its last major inspection last month and had logged 34,960 flight hours.

 

TOURIST DESTINATION

 

Yogyakarta, around 440 km southeast of the capital, Jakarta, is known as the cultural heart of Indonesia and is popular with tourists. Its Adi Sucipto airport is known for its relatively short runway.

 

The crash came a day after two powerful earthquakes hit the neighbouring Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing 72 people according to the country's disaster management agency.

 

Crash survivor Din Syamsudin, the head of Indonesia's second-largest Muslim organisation, Muhammadiyah, told Elshinta of his lucky escape.

 

"Some passengers wanted to get their hand luggage. I cried to them, 'Get out, get out'," he said.

 

"The plane was full of smoke. I just jumped from two metres high and landed in a rice field." He said the plane burst into flames soon after he escaped.

 

Another survivor Roni Irawan, whose left arm was broken during the ordeal, told Reuters: "When the plane crashed, I was slammed back and forth repeatedly. There were some sparks in front of me but I could dodge them. Soon after that I could jump out."

 

Aviation disaster expert Robert Heath said aircraft speed might have been a factor in the crash.

 

"From what I can see so far the aircraft appeared to land intact and that may point to excess speed being a factor," said Heath, from the University of South Australia.

 

Indonesia has suffered a string of transport accidents in recent months, including an Adam Air plane that disappeared in January with 102 passengers and crew on board, and a ferry sinking in late December in which hundreds died.

 

(With additional reporting by Rob Taylor in Canberra and Ahmad Pathoni, Achmad Sukarsono and Mita Valina Liem in Jakarta)

Edited by Andrew Ong

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Two Bruneians were onboard on that flight. They survived. Condelences to the family who loss thier loves ones.

 

Is that the soud of the engine?

 

Given that the scene is just outside the airport perimeter, could have been teh sound of other jets parked at the tarmac.

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5 rather high profile Australians are feared dead. :(

 

- AFR Journo Morgan Mellish

- AFP counter terrorism experts Mark Scott and Brice Steele

- Jakarta embassy media manager Liz O'Neill

- AUSAID coordinator Allison Sudrajat

 

We'd have lost a few other journos and diplomats based there too had they managed to get a seat on GA200.

Edited by Keith T

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5 rather high profile Australians are feared dead. :(

 

- AFR Journo Morgan Mellish

- AFP counter terrorism experts Mark Scott and Brice Steele

- Jakarta embassy media manager Liz O'Neill

- AUSAID coordinator Allison Sudrajat

 

So sad to hear about that :( :cray:

 

 

Edited by Andrew Ong

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Indonesian safety standards questioned following Garuda crash that kills 22

 

Thursday March 8, 2007

Indonesia's air safety record was under intense scrutiny yesterday following a second fatal 737-400 accident in 10 weeks, this one involving a Garuda Indonesia aircraft that skidded off a runway upon landing in Yogyakarta and caught fire in an adjacent rice field, killing 21 of 133 passengers and one of seven crewmembers.

 

The aircraft, registered PK-GZC, first flew in 1992, according to Flight Safety Foundation's Aviation Safety Network. Officials and surviving passengers said the jet, en route from Jakarta, approached the runway at extremely high speed and those aboard said it shook before landing. "The plane was too fast or overspeeding, so it ran about 300 meters off the runway," Benyamin Dandel, the Indonesian Air Force commander at the airport, told reporters.

 

A number of prominent Australian officials and journalists were aboard the flight, leading to a high level of attention in that country. Prime Minister John Howard said he had been given no indication that foul play or terrorism was involved. The FDR and CVR were recovered yesterday and were believed to be on their way to Australia for examination. The US NTSB said it would send a team to assist in the investigation.

 

More than 250 people, including several dozen on the ground, have died in air crashes in Indonesia in the past three years and Garuda has had at least nine crashes itself in the past 30 years. A 1997 Garuda A300 crash killed all 234 aboard and an Adam Air 737-400 crashed on Jan. 1, killing 102.

 

Burhanuddin Napitulu, a senior Indonesian lawmaker, publicly called for the resignation of Transportation Minister Hatta Radjasa. "The public has lost all trust. They are too scared to take planes. . .the disasters are neverending," he said. Seven Adam Air 737s were grounded for safety reasons last month.

 

 

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Another crash, also from Indonesia, they sure got issues.

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Garuda flight captain blames crash on 'downdraft'

 

Friday March 9, 2007

The pilot of the Garuda Indonesia 737-400 that crashed in Yogyakarta said a major, unexpected downdraft caused the accident, according to the president of the Garuda Pilots Assn.

 

The captain survived the crash in which 21 passengers and one crew were killed and reportedly is being held in a military hospital. The head of GPA, identified in media reports as Captain Stephanus, said the -400 pilot reported that conditions were normal when the aircraft was 1,000 ft. above the runway. But then "the captain felt a downdraft" and the aircraft sank "rapidly," Stephanus said.

 

Witnesses and surviving passengers have said that the jet appeared to approach the runway at a high rate of speed. According to Stephanus, the captain "said there was a problem. There was something wrong with the flaps. The flaps cannot extend normally."

 

The pilot has been a captain with Garuda for five years and has 22 years of experience, Stephanus said. The aircraft had 35,157 flight hr. and 37,328 cycles, according to Flight Safety Foundation's Aviation Safety Network.

 

 

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I read this "He phoned up as it was crashing," Seven cameraman Danny Sim said of Sukarda. "He was screaming 'The plane's crashing' from one of the articles provided [http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Seven-cameraman-films-air-crash-chaos/2007/03/07/1173166789861.html].

 

This guy had phoned while the plane was crashing. By the time a passenger knows that a plane is crashing, how many seconds is left to switch on the cellphone, have it initialized, and make a call? You see, cellphone could have been a problem. What do you think?

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My condolence to the victims... What they went through was definitely frightening... May the perished now rest in peace despite what they have gone through... Really sad...

Edited by Teoh Z Yao

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Garuda Plane's Front Exit Didn't Open :o

 

March 9, 2007

The main front left exit of the Garuda Indonesia plane that crashed this week failed to open after landing, preventing some of the passengers from escaping, a leading crash investigator said on Friday.

 

Most survivors were from economy class who exited from the back left door, while some passengers, including those from the front seats, used the left over-wing exits, said Frans Wenas, a senior investigator at the National Transport Safety Commission.

 

"Our findings showed the plane had been damaged after hitting a dyke," Wenas said. "The hinges of the front door were broken.

 

"Probably, smoke entered from the front right side. Everything became dark after smoke went in, so they tried to find exits that could be seen."

 

Many business class passengers were among those trapped inside when fire engulfed the plane, according to information from Garuda.

 

The plane with 133 passengers and seven crew overshot the runway, ploughed through a wire fence and crashed into an embankment before bursting into flames in a paddy field in Yogyakarta on Wednesday.

 

The airline and other sources have given slightly different figures on the number of dead, ranging from 20 to 23.

 

Flight GA 200 from Jakarta was a Boeing 737-400 plane with eight emergency exits. The pilot and co-pilot survived without major injuries.

 

They have been questioned briefly but investigators are yet to determine whether human error contributed to the accident, national police chief detective Bambang Hendarso said.

 

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said the plane's black-box flight recorder and cockpit voice recorder had arrived in Canberra and investigators had begun work to retrieve and analyze the data.

 

A spokesman said full analysis of the data could take months but preliminary information could be obtained in a few days.

 

The voice recorder contains the final 30 minutes of the pilots' chatter, while the flight data recorder should provide up to 25 hours of details on the aircraft's speed, altitude, engine thrust and flap settings.

 

Aviation experts say Garuda's safety record has improved in recent years, especially after a 1997 accident on Sumatra island that killed all 234 on board. The only deadly accident between that one and Wednesday's crash was an emergency landing that killed one crew member in 2002.

 

Indonesia has suffered a string of transport accidents in recent months, including an Adam Air plane that disappeared in January with 102 people on board and a ferry sinking in late December in which hundreds died.

 

Vice President Jusuf Kalla said on Friday that too many transport accidents had brought "shame" to Indonesia. But there has been no apparent drop in air transport demand.

 

Transportation Minister Hatta Radjasa told reporters the government was in the process of overhauling the aviation sector. "We are tightening aircraft inspection and pilot training regulations and auditing airlines."

 

Thirty protesters rallied near the transport ministry in Jakarta on Friday, demanding Radjasa resign.

 

"If you use a ferry, it will sink. If you use a plane, it will fall. If you use a train, it will derail," said a protester. :o :angry:

 

(Reuters)

 

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Just returned from Saigon, and back to GA200.

 

Both pilots are grounded: Capt M Marwoto Komar (ATPL cert 3204) and F/O Gagam Saman Rohmana (CPL cert 5616).

 

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Edited by Naim

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Garuda Indonesia identified sixteen out of the 22 people that perished (21 passengers and 1 crewmember) (posted on their website):

 

Sixteen GA-200 Passengers Have Been Identified

 

9/3/07 – 16:00 Jakarta time

 

The current development of GA-200 accident signifies that until Thursday, March 8, 2007, at 15.00 pm that sixteen passengers of the aircraft accident at Yogyakarta airport have been identified as : Ms. Suwarni Sugaib, Ms. Zaenah Sasmidi, Ms. P. Oemaryati, Ms. Supardi Wachjoo, Ms. Giarti Purnomo, Prof. DR. Kusnadi, Mr. FX Sukamto, Mr. Priyo Sudjalmo, Mr. Jihad Akbar, Mr. Totok Priyanto, Mr. Totok Yulianto, Ms. Dewi Riyana, Mr. Mulyanto Nugroho, Mr. Eddy Suharyo, DR. Masykur Wiratmo and Purser Wiranto Wooryono.

 

On Thursday, March 8, 2007, five of the deceased have been flown from Yogyakarta to Jakarta. The remain of Ms. Giarti Purnomo was carried by GA 205 which left Yogyakarta at 09.40 am, the late Mr. FX Sukamto was carried by GA 209 which at 12.40 pm for Jakarta. Meanwhile, the remain of Mr. Jihad Akbar, Ms. Dewi Riyana and Purser Wiranto Wooryono departed for Jakarta at 15.30 pm with GA 433.

 

The President Director & CEO of Garuda Indonesia, Mr. Emirsyah Satar accompanied the remain of Purser Wiranto Wooryono on GA 433. Upon arrival in Jakarta at 16.30 pm, Mr. Satar delivered the deceased to family members in a symbolic ceremony held at the auditorium of PT. GMF-AA at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.

 

On Thursday, March 8, 2007, Garuda Indonesia once again provided transportation for family members who wished to travel from Yogyakarta to Jakarta vv. GA 2122 left Jakarta for Yogyakarta at 17.50 pm, while GA 2152 departed at 19.30 pm for Jakarta.

 

Link:

http://www.garuda-indonesia.com/index.php?...etail&id=39

Edited by Andrew Ong

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...2-23349,00.html

 

Crash probe rules out downdraft

 

* Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta correspondent

* March 10, 2007

 

CRASH investigators have ruled out suggestions of a downdraft being responsible for the Garuda Airlines disaster this week that killed 21 people, including five Australians.

 

Crash scene head, Marjono Siswo Suwarno, said early investigations had revealed weather conditions were fine at the moment flight 200 from Jakarta crash-landed just before 7am on Wednesday.

 

The Boeing 737-400 broke up and burst into flames after failing to pull up in time on the notoriously short runway at the central Java city of Yogyakarta.

 

The five Australians presumed dead are Jakarta embassy staffers Liz O'Neill and Allison Sudrajat, Australian Federal Police officers Mark Scott and Brice Steele, and Australian Financial Review journalist Morgan Mellish.

 

Australian forensics specialists yesterday examined human remains presumed to be of the five, at Yogyakarta's Sardjito hospital, and hope to be able to make positive identifications by today.

 

"There are five bodies left here, which were examined by Australian and Indonesian forensics teams starting from yesterday morning," hospital spokesman Trisno Nugroho said.

 

"It's not thought that any of the five are Indonesians.

 

"We expect to have certainty and the names by the middle of the day on Saturday."

 

At Yogyakarta's airport, where Australian and Indonesian police and other investigators continue the painstaking task of piecing together the final moments of flight 200, investigations chief Mr Marjono dismissed suggestions that a down-draft had forced the jet into an uncontrollable descent.

 

"There was no down-draft at the point of landing," said Mr Marjono, from Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Bureau.

 

"Data from the meteorological board shows that wind speed was less than five knots, so conditions were good. There was no mayday call from the plane."

 

In fact, Mr Marjono added, "the final words from the control tower were 'clear to land"'.

 

Investigators continue to interview the two pilots, Marwoto Komar and Gagam Rahman, but have moved them from the secure location where they were being held after the crash. The two men had been under police guard at a military hospital in Yogyakarta.

 

Although Captain Marwoto hasbeen reported as being suicidal, hospital sources denied this.

 

Mr Marjono said he expected preliminary information from the plane's "black box" flight recorder and cockpit voice recorder to be made available some time next week, after investigators from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau sent the devices to Canberra on Thursday night.

 

"The data will be retrieved there, but analysis will be carried out here," he said.

 

"The ATSB is not leading the investigation, just helping us."

 

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Some recent developments.

 

Brakes new crash theory

 

RHETT WATSON

 

March 11, 2007 12:15am

Article from: Sunday Mail (SA)

 

CLAIMS of mechanical failure in the crash of Garuda flight GA-200 have emerged with news its braking system malfunctioned one day before it crash landed.

The malfunction, while landing at Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Jakarta on Tuesday, is now another line of inquiry into the fatal crash that killed 21 people including five Australians.

 

Previously pilot error has loomed large as the reason behind last Wednesday's accident.

 

However, given Indonesia's woeful air safety record and Garuda airline's ageing fleet, the potential for mechanical issues has always remained real.

 

...

 

CONTINUE READING AT http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0...49-910,00.html#

 

 

Garuda touchdown speed 'crazy'

 

From correspondents in Indonesia

 

March 10, 2007 08:42pm

Article from: Reuters

 

An Indonesian airliner was travelling at a "crazy" speed ahead of a fiery crash-landing that killed 21 people, a survivor said today.

 

Five Australians were among the dead and another five were injured.

 

“When the plane was landing, it was still flying very fast. I said to myself, the plane is going to land, but why is it going so fast, it's crazy,” Ketut Sunadi said from hospital near the crash site in Yogyakarta.

 

“When it touched the ground, I heard a bang and the plane jumped again before stopping.

 

"Luggage was falling from above and people were screaming, asking me to open the emergency door,” he said.

...

 

CONTINUE READING AT http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21359666-1702,00.html

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While not necessarily related to this accident, I'd like to believe a captain of an aircraft can exercise his / her right to refuse to fly an aircraft deemed to be unsafe or has unattended serious problems in previous flights, and be immune to company reprimanding him or her for having the safety interests of passengers and crew way above company's profit interests.

 

And the civil aviation authorities of respective countries must ensure airlines adhere to strict safety standards.

 

Otherwise passengers should boycott such airlines , either full service or low cost.

Edited by Rozhan

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This guy had phoned while the plane was crashing. By the time a passenger knows that a plane is crashing, how many seconds is left to switch on the cellphone, have it initialized, and make a call? You see, cellphone could have been a problem. What do you think?

 

Cellphone is banned from inflight because the speed of aircraft may confuse telco switching system.

 

According to a study in the UK, there are on average 5 cellphones are active on trans-Atlantic flight. It is never proven cellphone has caused any aircraft accident.

 

:drinks:

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Cellphone is banned from inflight because the speed of aircraft may confuse telco switching system.

 

According to a study in the UK, there are on average 5 cellphones are active on trans-Atlantic flight. It is never proven cellphone has caused any aircraft accident.

 

:drinks:

 

What about this then?

 

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/03/02/phones/index.html

 

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