Description

On 7 March 2007, a Boeing 737-400 being operated by Garuda landed on a scheduled passenger flight from Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta to Yogyakarta overran the end of the destination runway at speed in normal daylight visibility after a late and high speed landing attempt ending up 252 m beyond the end of the runway surface in a rice paddy field. There was a severe and prolonged fire which destroyed the aircraft (see the illustration below taken from the Investigation Report) and 21 of the 140 occupants were killed, 12 seriously injured, 100 suffered minor injuries and 7 were uninjured.

Investigation

An Investigation into the Accident was carried out by the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC). It was established the approach, with the aircraft commander as PF had been unstable and conducted at excessive speed and a high rate of descent with a number of Terrain Avoidance and Warning System (TAWS) warnings generated.