BBC World News has just reported that a Garuda Airliner has crashed in Indonesia. Does anyone have any info?

Anyone??? What kind of jet????

Not confirmed to me.

I will check my contacts

Anyone speak Bahasa Indonesia?

http://kompas.com/berita-terbaru/0201/16/headline/041.htm

Rabu, 16 Januari 2002, 19:09 WIB

Pesawat Garuda Jatuh di Bengawan Solo

Solo, Rabu


Pesawat Garuda jurusan penerbangan Ampenan, Lombok-Yogyakarta jatuh di Sungai Bengawan Solo, Serenan, Juwiring, Kabupaten Klaten, Jawa Tengah sekitar pukul 16.30 WIB.

Wartawan Antara dari lokasi kecelakaan melaporkan, hingga
Rabu petang pesawat jenis Fokker 27 itu masih mengapung di tengah Bengawan Solo yang meluap dengan kondisi patah sayap.

Pesawat itu ditumpangi 54 orang. Dalam kecelakaan itu
dilaporkan tidak ada korban meninggal, kecuali sejumlah orang
yang mengalami luka dan kini sudah dibawa ke Rumah Sakit Oen
Solo.(Ant/jy)

Garuda 421 from Lombok to Jakarta more will follow

Crashed or made an emergency landing

http://www.abc.gov.au/news/justin/nat/newsnat-16jan2002-110.htm

Clickable link:

http://www.abc.gov.au/news/justin/nat/newsnat-16jan2002-110.htm


Only the left wing broken??? LOL!!

A Garuda Indonesia airline Boeing 737 carrying 51 passengers has crash landed into a river in Central Java, injuring several people, airport officials said.

The plane had been bound for the central Java city of Yogyakarta from the island of Lombok, near Bali, when it crash landed in the Bengawan Solo river some 30 kilometers north-east of its destination.

"No one was killed, the aircraft was not too damaged because it landed in the water, only the right wing was broken," said Hariyadi Subagyo, the head of the Yogyakarta airport administration.

That is why they put two wings on airplanes...You always have a spare  

Here is the article:

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Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 23:15 AEDT

Garuda Indonesia plane crashes with more than 50 people on board
A Garuda Indonesia airline Boeing 737 carrying 51 passengers has crash landed into a river in Central Java, injuring several people, airport officials said.

The plane had been bound for the central Java city of Yogyakarta from the island of Lombok, near Bali, when it crash landed in the Bengawan Solo river some 30 kilometers north-east of its destination.

"No one was killed, the aircraft was not too damaged because it landed in the water, only the right wing was broken," said Hariyadi Subagyo, the head of the Yogyakarta airport administration.

I don't understand Bahasa very well, but orang means people, so presumably there were 54 people on board.

Bengawan Solo is a pretty famous river in Indonesia, which means the accident or inccident happened there. I think it's also mentioned that the Indonesian Antara news agency is the source of the news.

pheeeew, thank god no one was seriously injured or killed  

Can't wait for the photos. Well done to the pilots and crew for a successful outcome.

What caused the emergency? Kudos to the crew and Thank God there are no fatalities.

alvin

You don't hear of many successful ditchings, and if indeed this was one, then well done to the pilots!!

I wonder if this aircraft will be fixed, if not badly damaged? Probably not.....

Another thing, why did they need to crash land in a river enroute?

The aircraft involved appears to be PK-GWA, delivered back in 1989 which was operating GA 421 from Lombok to Yogyakarta and was apparently 20 minutes from landing. Appears to be no fatalities at this stage but all have been taken to hospitals. According to Garuda, the airplane will have all the water bailed out, they'll botch up the "broken" wing and send out a BP truck to refuel it and it will be on its merry little way....no problems whatsoever!!

The Jakarta Post reports that a flight attendant was killed in the accident.  

Another incident (accident??) in the past three days.

On Monday, Lion Airlines' B732 crashed landed in Pekanbaru, Indonesia.


JA

A link to Jakarta Post's article:

http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20020116215705&irec=0

JA

BBC NEWS:
Wednesday, 16 January, 2002, 14:59 GMT
Indonesia plane crash-lands in river

One woman has reportedly been killed after an Indonesian airline Boeing 737 crash-landed into a river about 25 kilometres (15 miles) north east of the central Javan city of Yogyakarta.
The AFP news agency quoted a doctor as saying a body, apparently that of a flight attendant, had been recovered.

Police said 12 out of the 54 passengers and six crew on board the Garuda national airline plane had been injured.

A statement from Garuda said all on board had been taken to hospitals in the nearby city of Solo.

The cause of the crash is not known but one passenger quoted by the local television network RCTI said the plane had been forced down by a combination of severe turbulence and bad weather.

The plane had been travelling from the resort island of Lombok to the ancient royal city of Yogyakarta, another popular tourist spot.

It came down in the Bangawan Solo River at 1635 (0935GMT), Garuda said.

The river cuts through a densely-populated rural area. Correspondents say the pilot may have chosen to set the plane down on the river as the land is covered with houses and rice fields.

In 1997, a Garuda Airbus A-300 crashed into a jungle as it approached Medan airport in northern Sumatra, hampered by thick smoke from forest fires. All 234 on board were killed