Garuda crash blame 'goes beyond pilot' (AAP)

Accountability for the Yogyakarta plane crash that killed 21 people including five Australians needs to go beyond the pilot, a victim's sister says. On March 7, 2007 a Garuda Airline 737 overshot the runway then exploded in flames at Yogyakarta airport in Indonesia. "Someone else higher than him (the pilot) also needs to be taking accountability for it, whether it be Garuda as such or Indonesian aviation as a whole," Caroline Mellish told ABC Radio. Ms Mellish's journalist brother Morgan died in the crash. Pilot Marwoto Komar, 46, faces a possible life sentence under a charge of causing death by deliberately destroying an aircraft. "I think obviously he was flying the plane and was responsible for the crash in a lot of respects but there are far greater issues in regards to aviation in Indonesia, in regards to safety... [read full story]