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| Indonesia court jails pilot over 2007 crash |
| By worldbulletin.net |
| Published: 04/06/2009 |
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An Indonesian court sentenced the pilot of a Garuda Indonesia aircraft to two years in jail on Monday for negligence in an air crash in 2007 in which 21 people were killed, the judge said. Prosecutors had said captain Marwoto Komar, who had 22 years of flying experience, ignored warnings from his co-pilot and onboard alert signals about the plane's speed and trajectory when landing the aircraft with 140 people on board. The plane bounced and skidded off the runway at Yogyakarta airport before bursting into flames in a rice field. "The defendant was found legitimately and convincingly guilty of negligence", said Sri Andini, the head of a panel of five judges at the court in Sleman, near Yogyakarta on Java island. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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