Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesian police said Thursday that they were using a new report criticising the pilots of a Garuda jet that crashed this year to help them compile evidence of negligence.
A final report into the accident that killed 21 people written by Indonesia's National Transport Safety Committee said that the pilot had ignored some 15 warnings not to land and that his co-pilot had failed to step in.
"Our investigation is still ongoing. We are gathering evidence and testimony from witnesses," national police spokesman Sisno Adiwinoto told AFP.
The new report released this week "is an input (showing) that there is an indication of human error," Adiwinoto said, declining to elaborate further.
He said that the pilot, co-pilot and crew of the Boeing 737 had already been questioned by the police.
"We need to gather the necessary preliminary evidence and witnesses to show that there was negligence that led to the loss of lives and injuries," he said.
Police in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta, where the crash occurred, were in charge of the investigation, he added.
There were 133 passengers and seven crew on board the ill-fated jet. Five Australians were among the 21 killed after it slammed into the runway, careened off into rice paddies and burst into flames.
The final safety report also found that the airline and local airport authorities were at fault.
The committee, however, said that under international aviation rules, the report could not be used in court and that the police had to seek their own evidence to build up their case.
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