A Garuda Indonesia plane, which flies from Jakarta to Jogjakarta burst into flames at 7.00 a.m. on March 7, a few minutes after landing at Adisucipto Airport, Jogjakarta.
There were 133 passengers onboard (120 people in economy and 13 in business class) and seven aircrew. According to some sources and witnesses, tens of them were burnt near the cockpit of the Boeing 737-400. Three hours after the incident, the airport officers were still spraying water into the airplane’s body to reduce the heat and enable them to remove the dead from inside the aircraft.
