Garuda Indonesia Flight 200
Tail of the Garuda Indonesia aircraft involved in the accident
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| Accident summary | |
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| Date | 7 March 2007 |
| Summary | Pilot error caused by improper training, Runway overrun, lack of crew resource management |
| Site |
Adisucipto International Airport (IATA: JOG; ICAO: WARJ) 7°47′17″S 110°25′54″E / 7.78806°S 110.43167°ECoordinates: 7°47′17″S 110°25′54″E / 7.78806°S 110.43167°E |
| Passengers | 133 |
| Crew | 7 |
| Fatalities | 21 |
| Injuries (non-fatal) | 112 (12 serious) |
| Survivors | 119 |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 737–400 |
| Operator | Garuda Indonesia |
| Registration | PK-GZC |
 Pre-accident pictures of the airplane
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Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 (GA200/GIA 200) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight of a Boeing 737-400 operated by Garuda Indonesia between Jakarta and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The aircraft overran the runway, crashed into a rice field and burst into flames while landing at Adisucipto International Airport on 7 March 2007. Twenty passengers and one crew member were killed. Both the captain and the first officer survived.
The aircraft was a Boeing 737-497, registered as PK-GZC, which had been operated by other airlines before being acquired by Garuda Indonesia. The aircraft had accumulated a total of 35,157 airframe hours and 37,328 cycles since its first flight on 5 November 1992.
The oldest airline in Indonesia (founded in 1949), Garuda Indonesia had received a number of criticisms in the months surrounding the crash. According to Australian aviation experts, Garuda Indonesia had one of the worst safety records among the world's national carriers. Since 1950, Garuda Indonesia has had 13 major accidents. The most recent was in 2002, when Garuda Indonesia Flight 421 ditched in the Bengawan Solo River due to engine flameout caused by excessive hail ingestion, killing a flight attendant. The worst accident was in 1997, when Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 flew into a wooded mountain on approach to Medan, killing 234 people. The managing director of the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation, Peter Harbison, stated that the major accidents in Indonesian aviation history were all caused by the combinations of airports' and fleets' low safety standards and the poor weather conditions in the area, including severe thunderstorms and other forms of inclement weather.
Following the crash of Flight 200, the European Union banned Garuda and all Indonesian airlines from flying into the EU. The ban was a watershed for Garuda, leading to widespread reforms within the airline to improve both its safety and service standards, and led to the implementation of the 5-year Quantum Leap program, which nearly doubled its fleet, introduced new aircraft such as the Boeing 737-800 and Boeing 777-300ER, and also connected more destinations, with the airline starting or resuming service to destinations such as Amsterdam and London. The European ban on Garuda was lifted in June 2009, and the airline is now a 5 star rated airline by Skytrax, and has had an excellent safety record since the reform began.
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