Mark Forbes
SMH, January 23, 2008
INDONESIAN air force officials have said they will allow police to interview air-traffic controllers from Yogyakarta Airport, following complaints that the investigation into the crash of a Garuda aircraft last year was being blocked.
Rear Air Marshal Daryatmo yesterday said that as long as the air-traffic controllers were not treated as suspects in the crash, questioning would be permitted.
Yogyakarta Airport is run by the air force. The March 7 crash landing killed 21 people, including five Australians. Police have been trying to interview the controllers for nearly three months.
"For the national interest, the air force realises this investigation is important so the same accident won't happen again," Rear Air Marshal Daryatmo said.
"As long as they [the controllers] are summoned as witnesses, we have no problem at all."
The interviews could be a key element in the case against the aircraft's captain, Marwoto Komar, as police have been denied access to cockpit recordings.
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