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The accident, which was attributed to poor weather and fog, killed 25 out of 61 passengers and one person on the ground. 15 November 1978 Icelandic Airlines Flight 001 (TF-FLA) Leased to Garuda Indonesia for a Hajj flight crashed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183 out of 262 on board 6 March 1979
List of aircraft accidents and incidents resulting in 50 or more fatalities in Indonesia. Initial sort order is by total fatalities (descending) and then by date (most recent to most distant). Deaths T Incident [nb 1] Aircraft Location Phase Airport Distance Date Tot C P G N; 234 12 222 0 † COM Garuda Indonesia Flight 152: Airbus A300B4-220 ...
Nearly six years after the crash the lawsuit was settled out of court. [10] A suit against Garuda Indonesia, brought by Joyce Coyle in Oregon (Coyle v. P.T. Garuda Indonesia) was dismissed on the grounds that the US court had no jurisdiction to hear a case about domestic flights operated by a government-owned airline in another country. [11] [12]
The national airline of Indonesia (founded in 1949), [6] Garuda Indonesia had received a number of criticisms in the months surrounding the crash. According to Australian aviation experts, Garuda Indonesia had one of the worst safety records among the world's national carriers. [7] Since 1950, Garuda Indonesia has had 13 major accidents.
It had its first flight on 24 April 1979 and was delivered to Garuda Indonesia on 27 July 1979. The aircraft was 17 years old at the time of the accident; it was the 284th DC-10 built and its MSN number was 46685. [5] The aircraft had three General Electric CF6-50C2 turbofan engines. [6]
Aviation accidents and incidents on Garuda Indonesia flights Pages in category "Garuda Indonesia accidents and incidents" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The day following the accident, Garuda Indonesian Airways grounded the remaining two Convair 990A aircraft in its fleet and suspended the Jakarta to Amsterdam and vice versa milk run service. [3] The latter would later get reinstated, but the operating aircraft for the flight got replaced by the Douglas DC-8 on lease from KLM .
Garuda Indonesia no longer operates this route in 2005. It still uses the flight number GA-421, but on the Denpasar – Jakarta route instead, operated by an Airbus A330 or a 777-300ER . [ 7 ] Garuda Indonesia also funded local road construction nearby the accident area and also built a multipurpose hall and reservoir facility in thanks for ...