Gila...bisa cepet banget reuters...barusan baca di antara 20 jenazah..... Indonesia plane crash kills 49 Tue Mar 6, 2007 11:22pm ET Related News Australians caught up in Indonesia plane crash More Related News... advertisement By Dwi Prasetyo
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - At least 49 people died but dozens also escaped after an Indonesian passenger jet overshot the runway and burst into flames on landing in the cultural capital of Yogyakarta on Wednesday. Dozens of passengers leapt from the plane's emergency exists into rice paddy fields to escape the inferno, which reduced the plane to a smoldering wreck of twisted metal. "We found 48 dead bodies at the spot. One person died at Sardjito hospital," provincial secretary Bambang Susanto told Reuters, referring to the city's main medical center. Reuters Pictures Editors Choice: Best pictures from the last 24 hours. View Slideshow Chief Garuda spokesman Pujobroto said flight GA 200 was a Boeing 737-400 plane carrying 133 passengers and seven crew when it crashed at around 7 a.m. (0000 GMT) after a scheduled flight from Jakarta. Australian officials said the flight was carrying a large group of Australian diplomats, government officials and journalists who had been accompanying Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, who was not aboard, on an official visit to Indonesia. Garuda's media office said the plane carried eight Australians, two Japanese, two Brunei nationals and seven other foreigners. Yogyakarta, around 440 km (270 miles) southeast of the capital, Jakarta, is known as the cultural heart of Indonesia and very popular with tourists, although it is the off season at the moment. The crash came a day after two powerful earthquakes hit the neighboring Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at least 70 people. Crash survivor Din Syamsudin, the head of Indonesia's second-largest Muslim organization, Muhammadiyah, told Elshinta news radio of his lucky escape. "Some passengers wanted to get their hand luggage. I cried to them, 'Get out, get out'," he said. Reuters Pictures Editors Choice: Best pictures from the last 24 hours. View Slideshow "The plane was full of smoke. I just jumped from two meters high and landed in a rice field." "I was sitting at the back of the plane and people started to jump out," Julianto, one of the survivors, told Metro TV. "Many escaped the plane," he added. Indonesia has suffered from a string of transport accidents in recent months, including an Adam Air plane that disappeared in January with 102 passengers and crew on board, and a ferry sinking in late December in which hundreds died. The series of accidents had sparked the government to set up special commissions to look at the state of transportation safety in the sprawling archipelago of 17,000 islands. © Reuters 2007. All Rights Reserved. http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-03-07T043201Z_01_SP238549_RTRUKOC_0_US-INDONESIA-PLANE.xml&pageNumber=1&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage1 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
