Garuda crashlanding?

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I haven't seen this anywhere else yet, nor is there a date on it.  Can
anyone confirm?

Jetliner Crash Lands in Indonesia

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 7:42 a.m. ET

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- A Boeing 737-300 jetliner made an emergency
landing on a river on the main island of Java during a heavy rainstorm
Wednesday,
police and airline officials said.

Police said only three out of the 54 passengers and crew aboard the Garuda
Indonesia plane were seriously injured when it came down on the Benjawang
Solo
River, 300 miles east of Jakarta.

The plane had been on a flight from the tourist island of Lombok to the
city of
Yogyakarta, about 14 miles west of the crash site.

An airline official said it was not known what went wrong on flight
GA-421.

A statement from Garuda said all on board had been taken to hospitals in
the
nearby city of Solo.

It said the crash happened as the plane was 20 minutes away from landing.

It was not immediately clear if any foreigners were aboard.

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