Thanks, Russell. CNN.com has nothing on it yet (no big surprise there, I guess). I'd pulled it off an airline-stock list and wasn't too sure about its veracity. Thank goodness there were no fatalities. Steven ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell Ng" <russng@singnet.com.sg> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 09:05 Subject: Re: Garuda crashlanding? > 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. >