Garuda Indonesia Flight 200

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Garuda Indonesia Flight 200
Garuda Indonesia Boeing 737-497 PK-GZC.jpg

The crashed machine in Singapore on January 23, 2005
Accident summary
Accident type Landing accident
place Adisucipto International Airport ( IATA : JOG; ICAO : WARJ)
date March 7, 2007
Fatalities 21st
Survivors 119
Aircraft
Aircraft type Boeing 737-400
operator Garuda Indonesia
Mark PK-GZC
Departure airport Jakarta / Soekarno-Hatta Airport
Destination airport Yogyakarta Airport
Passengers 133
crew 7th
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Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 was a domestic flight operated by the Indonesian national airline Garuda Indonesia on the 440-kilometer route from Jakarta / Soekarno-Hatta to Yogyakarta on March 7, 2007.

When landing at Yogyakarta's Adisucipto International Airport , the plane shot over the end of the runway . The machine came to a stop just behind the airport fence in a rice field and went up in flames. 20 passengers and one crew member were killed in the accident.

Crew and crew

There were 133 passengers and seven crew members on board the Boeing 737-400 . Among the 133 passengers were 19 foreigners who accompanied the Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer's visit to Java . The cockpit crew survived. The Australians on board were part of a delegation, including Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Attorney General Phillip Ruddock , who was traveling to Indonesia for an anti-terrorist conference. Initially it was assumed that Downer and Ruddock were on board the machine and Australian President John Howard had initially given the number of 49 deaths. However, the Australian authorities confirmed that five Australians were among those killed. Many of the survivors suffered severe burns and were admitted to local hospitals. Some of the injured Australians on board were flown to Perth and Darwin for treatment; an Australian was rushed to hospital in Singapore with severe burn injuries . Among the Australians killed were two officers from the Australian Federal Police , an employee of the Australian aid organization AusAID , Elizabeth (Liz) O'Neill - the press spokeswoman for the Australian embassy in Jakarta and the journalist Morgan Mellish of the Australian Financial Review magazine.

A cameraman from the Australian broadcaster Seven was also on board the aircraft . Immediately after his escape from the plane wreck, he began filming the scene of the accident. His pictures were broadcast by television stations around the world.

Aircraft

The 14-year-old Boeing 737-400 with the aircraft registration PK-GZC made its maiden flight on November 5, 1992 and was delivered to Aloha Airlines on November 13, 1992 . The aircraft reached the Indonesian state carrier via Star Europe and Indian Jet Airways . At the time of the accident, she had completed 35,157 flight hours. The jet had been in Garuda's service since October 7, 2002.

course

At around 7:00 a.m. local time (0:00 a.m. GMT ), the Boeing 737-400 shot over the end of the 2,200 m long runway at Yogyakarta Airport, landing several times before getting stuck in a rice field outside the airport. According to reports from survivors, heavy smoke developed in the cabin shortly after the hard touchdown, in which all passengers are said to have been thrown into the front seat. Parts of the landing gear were discovered on the runway after the accident. Landing on the aircraft nose was probably the reason for the aircraft igniting. Before the machine came to a standstill, both engines were torn off and the right wing was damaged, so that kerosene leaked and quickly ignited. The plane was completely destroyed.

After the aircraft came to a standstill, the flight crew managed to open several doors and activate the evacuation slides. 118 aircraft occupants were able to escape into the open; 11 people were rescued, some with severe burns. After the fire was extinguished and the debris cooled, the bodies were recovered from the wreck.

Captain Morwoto Komar considered a malfunction of the landing flaps. According to eyewitness reports, the aircraft is said to have approached the runway at too high a speed. Passengers reported several strong vibrations before the accident.

The flight recorders were sent to Canberra , Australia for evaluation . The Australian Federal Police also got involved in the investigation .

Investigation of the causes

Australian Aviation Authority investigators conducted investigations into the wreck. Both flight recorders were brought to Canberra because the technical facilities for an evaluation were not available in Indonesia. Members of the crew stated that there was a problem with the landing flaps and flight captain Marwoto Komar testified that he had to counter-steer during the landing approach from an altitude of about 1000 feet strong winds. According to information from Indonesian aviation circles, the airport is known for its changeable wind currents. According to employees of the Indonesian Commission of Inquiry, corrosion and a break in the bug cannot be ruled out as the cause. Passengers reported that the aircraft had been shaken several times before the accident and, according to statements by two members of the Royal Australian Air Force on board, the aircraft had approached the ground far too quickly. Australia's Foreign Secretary Downer said there was no evidence of sabotage or a terrorist attack. Previously, there was such speculation because some survivors had testified that there was an explosion on board shortly before the accident.

In October, the Jakarta Aviation Safety Authority announced that the captain had flown too high and too fast. He had ignored multiple warnings from the on-board instruments and the copilot.

airline

The airline was founded in 1949 and is the oldest in Indonesia. Since 1950, the airline's aircraft have been involved in 29 major aircraft accidents, with Garuda Indonesia flight 152 on August 26, 1997, with 234 fatalities, being the most serious accident in Indonesia's aviation history when an Airbus A300 approaching Medan airport after an error the air traffic control against a mountain crashed. According to the Director of the Center for Asia Pacific Aviation, Peter Harbison, most of the accidents in Indonesian aviation are due to the fact that the low safety standards of the airports and airlines combined with the often bad weather conditions in the region due to frequent storms and strong winds .

The last fatal aircraft accident involving a Garuda Indonesia aircraft occurred in 2002.

Garuda Indonesia had the company logo on the tail unit and the aircraft registration painted over with paint, apparently to reduce the loss of trust among customers. The airline acted similarly to Adam Air in the accident of Adam Air flight 172 in mid-February 2007 and Alitalia in the Carpatair crash landing in 2013.

Representation in the media

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on passengers of GA200 ( Memento of March 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Australian Associated Press : "Authorities confirm Aussie dead" , Mar. 9, 2007
  3. ↑ Sydney Morning Herald : Police and investigators at air tragedy site , March 10, 2007 (English)
  4. ↑ Airfleets.net: database entry , accessed on 13 March 2007
  5. ↑ airliners.de
  6. ↑ airliners.de
  7. ↑ airliners.de
  8. ↑ https://timenote.info/de/events/Garuda-Indonesia-Flug-200
  9. ↑ Pilot 'suicidal, blames wind gust' ( Memento from March 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Sydney Morning Herald : Police and investigators at air tragedy site , March 10, 2007
  11. ↑ Die Welt : Flammendes Inferno im Reisfeld , March 7, 2007
  12. ↑ Handelsblatt : "Garuda Pilot ignored warnings" October 22, 2007
  13. ↑ List of Garuda Accidents, Aviation Safety Network (English)
  14. ^ Daily Telegraph : Garuda in world's worst category , March 7, 2007
  15. ^ Sydney Morning Herald : Police and investigators at air tragedy site , March 10, 2007
  16. ↑ News.com.au: "Plane crash survivor discharged," March 9, 2007
  17. ^ Daily Telegraph : Air staff cover their tail , March 9, 2007

Coordinates: 7 ° 47 ′ 16.1 ″  S , 110 ° 26 ′ 39.4 ″  E