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RELATED LINKS * [26]VIDEO: Calls for justice * [27]PHOTOS: Garuda crash victims * [28]PHOTOS: Bodies come home It has also emerged that the pilot of the ill-fated Garuda flight, was singing as he began his descent. advertisement [space.gif] The National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) made a series of recommendations following its investigation 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. But the chairman of the NTSC said evidence from the black box flight recorders would "not be given to police or any institution", Fairfax reports. He also said his staff would refuse any police summonses. Chairman Tatang Kurniadi's announcement came despite emotional pleas from a bereaved relative for Indonesian authorities to take action against the pilots. Caroline Mellish, whose brother Morgan was one of five Australians who died in the plane crash, challenged Mr Kurniadi during a press conference. "If you won't take responsibility for a pilot who effectively killed 21 people, what exactly is your government doing in order to ensure anything like this never happens again?" she said. "What is happening to the pilots? Twenty-one deaths on his conscience, is that all he has? Is there any legal action from your government or external source?" The chief detective overseeing the investigation, Aridono Sukman, said information from the Boeing 737's black box recordings was key to the police case. 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". 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