Re: Garuda crashlanding?

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Steven

It was on BBC and they are reliable.

Russell


At 08:57 AM 1/16/02 -0600, you wrote:
>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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