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   October 22, 2007

   The pilot of an ill-fated Garuda flight which crashed in Indonesia
   killing 21 people, including five Australians, was singing as he began
   his descent, a report says.

   Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) has made a
   series of recommendations following its investigation of the March 7
   crash.

   But, despite finding flaws with the pilot's actions - including that
   he ignored 15 "very loud" alarms to continue with his unstabilised
   landing approach at excessively high speed and steep descent - it did
   not recommend any criminal action.

   The plane overran the runway in Yogyakarta, central Java, crossed a
   road, and hit an embankment before exploding into flames in a rice
   paddy field, 252m from the runway.

   The report revealed details of the final minutes of the flight,
   obtained through analysis of the plane's black boxes.

   It found the pilot was "singing" during the approach, below 10,000
   feet and prior to reaching 4,000 feet, which was "not in accordance
   with the Garuda Basic Operations Manual policy for a sterile cockpit
   below 10,000 feet".

   "The pilot was probably emotionally aroused because his conscious
   awareness moved from the relaxed mode "singing" to the heightened
   stressfulness of the desire to reach the runway by making an
   excessively steep and fast, unstabilised approach," the report said.

   It found the pilot, who was uninjured, later "fixated" on landing the
   aircraft, ignoring the 15 loud alarms in the cockpit and two calls
   from his copilot to abort the landing.

   However, there were clues that he realised things were amiss prior to
   the crash, commenting "Oh, there is something not right", the report
   said.

   "The pilot in command's intention to continue to land the aircraft,
   from an excessively high and fast approach, was a sign that his
   attention was channelised during a stressful time," the report said.

   The report found the copilot also failed to follow company procedures
   that required him to take control of the aircraft when he saw the
   pilot repeatedly ignore the warnings.

   Gaurda records showed no evidence that the company provided simulator
   training for flight crews covering required responses to the warning
   sirens.

   It found the Directorate General of Civil Aviation's surveillance of
   Garuda had failed to identify safety deficiencies and that authorities
   had only checked the plane's safety and airworthiness twice in almost
   a decade.

   The airport did not meet international runway standards, and its
   rescue and firefighting vehicles were ill-equipped and unable to reach
   the crash site, which may have "significantly reduced survivability".

   More than 100 others survived but many suffered horrific burns,
   including Sydney Morning Herald journalist Cynthia Banham, who has
   since had one leg amputated and the other partially amputated.

   The fire was extinguished more than two hours after the crash.

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