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One dead in Indonesian plane crash
Officials in Indonesia now say one person was killed when a Garuda Indonesia airline Boeing 737 carrying 54 passengers and six crew members, crash landed into a river in Central Java.
Several people were injured.
Doctors say the body of the woman, believed to be a flight attendant was taken to a hospital in the Central Java town of Solo four hours after the plane made an emergency landing on the Bengawan Solo river.
Flight GA-421 had been bound for the central Java city of Yogyakarta from the island of Lombok.
Airport officials say the plane was "trapped" in a heavy rain storm before sufferring mechanical failure which prompted the pilot to land it in the river. Officials earlier said all on board survived.
17/01/2002 3:50:16 AM | ABC Radio Australia News
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