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This post is titled Indonesia plane crash kills dozens; 2 Bruneians safe by author SoulJah.
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia: At least 49 people died but scores escaped after an Indonesian passenger jet overshot the runway and burst into flames on landing in the cultural capital of Yogyakarta on Wednesday.
Dozens of passengers leapt from the plane's emergency exists into surrounding rice paddy fields to escape the inferno, which reduced the plane to a smouldering wreck of twisted metal.
Pujobroto, chief spokesman for national carrier 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. after a scheduled flight from Jakarta.
One survivor told Reuters that passengers had been warned the flight would be turbulent and that most reacted calmly and orderly under the circumstances.
"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 come to a stop," she said.
Provincial Secretary Bambang Susanto told Reuters that 48 bodies were recovered from the crash scene and one other person had died at the city's main medical centre.
The flight was carrying a large group of Australian diplomats, government officials and journalists who had been accompanying Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, who was not aboard, on an official visit to Indonesia.
Downer said nine Australians were on board the plane. Five were injured and four were unaccounted for -- an air force liaison staffer, an Australian Federal 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.
Downer and Prime Minister John Howard of Australia said they had received no information that would suggest terrorism or sabotage was a factor in the disaster.
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 organization, Muhammadiyah, told Elshinta news radio 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 meters high and landed in a rice field." He said the plane burst into flames soon after he escaped.
World Vision's Panggabean said under the circumstances, "the passengers were fairly calm and the evacuation process was quite orderly".
Survivors were taken to a number of area hospitals.
"We are treating 10 to 15 passengers. They are all fine. An 8-months-pregnant woman is o.k., and so is her baby," said Constantine, a nurse at Panti Rapih Hospital.
Robert Heath, an aviation disaster expert, 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, a professor at the University of South Australia.
"The fire may have been caused by the nose wheel hitting things as it ran off the runway or engine destruction."
Indonesia has suffered from 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.
The series of accidents had sparked the government to set up special commissions to look at the state of transportation safety in the sprawling archipelago of 17,000 islands.
Editor's Note: Early reports that the two Bruneians are safe, and only one of them suffered a fractured bone.
Link: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/07/asia/web-0307crash.php
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/03/06/indonesia.plane/index.html
http://english.sabah.com.tr/4A1880AD9B8C4266BB14ED50140CEDB1.html
Dozens of passengers leapt from the plane's emergency exists into surrounding rice paddy fields to escape the inferno, which reduced the plane to a smouldering wreck of twisted metal.
Pujobroto, chief spokesman for national carrier 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. after a scheduled flight from Jakarta.
One survivor told Reuters that passengers had been warned the flight would be turbulent and that most reacted calmly and orderly under the circumstances.
"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 come to a stop," she said.
Provincial Secretary Bambang Susanto told Reuters that 48 bodies were recovered from the crash scene and one other person had died at the city's main medical centre.
The flight was carrying a large group of Australian diplomats, government officials and journalists who had been accompanying Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, who was not aboard, on an official visit to Indonesia.
Downer said nine Australians were on board the plane. Five were injured and four were unaccounted for -- an air force liaison staffer, an Australian Federal 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.
Downer and Prime Minister John Howard of Australia said they had received no information that would suggest terrorism or sabotage was a factor in the disaster.
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 organization, Muhammadiyah, told Elshinta news radio 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 meters high and landed in a rice field." He said the plane burst into flames soon after he escaped.
World Vision's Panggabean said under the circumstances, "the passengers were fairly calm and the evacuation process was quite orderly".
Survivors were taken to a number of area hospitals.
"We are treating 10 to 15 passengers. They are all fine. An 8-months-pregnant woman is o.k., and so is her baby," said Constantine, a nurse at Panti Rapih Hospital.
Robert Heath, an aviation disaster expert, 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, a professor at the University of South Australia.
"The fire may have been caused by the nose wheel hitting things as it ran off the runway or engine destruction."
Indonesia has suffered from 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.
The series of accidents had sparked the government to set up special commissions to look at the state of transportation safety in the sprawling archipelago of 17,000 islands.
Editor's Note: Early reports that the two Bruneians are safe, and only one of them suffered a fractured bone.
Link: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/07/asia/web-0307crash.php
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/03/06/indonesia.plane/index.html
http://english.sabah.com.tr/4A1880AD9B8C4266BB14ED50140CEDB1.html
Labels: News
Posted by SoulJah at 4:22:00 PM
