Boeing 737-400 crash, Mar 7, 2007 (21 killed), Yogyakarta
Boeing 737-400 accident on March 7, 2007 near Yogyakarta, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia with 21 fatalities. Cause: Crew coordination failures...
- Date: March 7, 2007
- Aircraft: Boeing 737-400
- Location: Yogyakarta, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- Fatalities: 21
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Crew coordination failures and an unstabilised approach that was not aborted. The captain ignored repeated GPWS warnings and go-around calls, and the copilot did not take control. Garuda gave no simulator training on GPWS responses, and the airport lacked standard runway end safety areas and rescue equipment.
A Garuda 737-400 on a scheduled flight from Jakarta landed at Yogyakarta under visual conditions after an unstabilised, steep and fast approach. It overran the runway end, crossed a road and stopped in a rice field, where a fuel-fed fire broke out. Of the 140 people on board, 21 died and most of the rest survived.