Friday to mark a year since Garuda crash

SMH, March 6, 2008
Candles will be lit at Australia's Embassy in Jakarta on Friday to commemorate the five Australians killed in an Indonesian plane crash a year ago.
Friday marks the first anniversary of the Garuda plane crash which killed 21 people on landing in Yogyakarta on March 7, 2007.
A series of small, private gatherings will be held in Indonesia's capital to commemorate the anniversary.
At the embassy, friends and relatives of those Australians who perished will be able to place flowers near a plaque erected in their memory at the main entrance to the mission.
The five Australians had been travelling to cover a visit by Australia's then foreign minister Alexander Downer.
They were Australian Financial Review journalist Morgan Mellish, 36; diplomat Liz O'Neill, 37; Australian Federal Police agents Brice Steele, 37, and Mark Scott, 41; and AusAid Indonesia head Allison Sudradjat, 41.
Police are still probing the crash one year on, although they have indicated the 45-year-old pilot Captain Martowo Komar will face criminal charges.
The decision has sparked outrage from other pilots.
Komar is believed to be the first pilot to face prosecution over a plane crash in Indonesia, which has a poor aviation safety record.
He faces up to seven years imprisonment if convicted for the five flagged charges, which include negligence causing death and injury.
A final report by safety regulators found the pilot was so "fixated" with landing that he ignored 15 alarms and the pleas of his copilot warning he was coming in too fast.
The plane was travelling at almost double the normal landing speed.
Komar was detained at Yogyakarta Police Headquarters early last month, but released on bail two weeks later.
He could face court within weeks.
2008 AAP