GA crash landing + fire: casualties reported

[KeithMEL]

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/20...e#contentSwap1
50 unaccounted for thus far.

Developing...

[UMD]

This is very sad.....What the hell is happening with Indonesia lately? Just yesterday, there was another major earthquake in West Sumatra killing at least 70 people. Just a string of unfortunate accidents (Ferry 3x, Adam 2x, Merpati 1x, Garuda 1x - all in the 1st 3 months of 2007) and natural disasters lately.

Let's hope the number of casualties can be contained.....if possible none at all this time.

[KeithMEL]

Latest headline: 49 dead.

[SQ168]

Very sad indeed...and this happened in my second hometown. May those who perished rest in peace

[SQflyergirl]

This is very sad news. RIP.

[SQflyergirl]

PK-GZC was the registration

[StarG]

Yeah, what a bad first quarter of 2007 for Indonesia.

[MAN Flyer]

Sad to see another one going down.

They have just shown some amazing footage on the news here taken by a gut from Channel 7 in Australia who was on the flight.

[KeithMEL]

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/...166801037.html

First hand account of the aftermath.

[MovieMan]

Sad news indeed. The only positive aspect is that a majority of the passengers survived.

Also unfortunate for the country that it happened so soon after the earthquake in Sumatra.

[singaporeairlinesboi]

Lion air and now Garuda indonesia.

[KeithMEL]

Death toll reduced to 22, phew.

5 rather high profile Australians are feared dead.

[Lobster]

Crickey I used to take this flight almost weekly last summer (because Garuda were supposidly safe).

I must say Yogjakarta is not where I would want to do an emergency landing the runway is so bumpy even the smoothest of landings feels really rough.

[Greatfox]

looks like it's either pilot error or the flaps failed to deploy with the combination of a sudden downdraft on final