Garuda Pilot Jailed
An Indonesian pilot whose plane crashed, killing 21 people including five Australians, has been jailed for two years.
Marwoto Komar's Boeing 737 slammed onto the runway at Yogyakarta airport, careered into a field and burst into flames on March 7, 2007.
Investigators say Komar ignored a series of warnings not to land the plane as he brought it in at twice the safe speed.
Despite initially blaming the disaster on strong winds, Komar during his trial sought to blame problems with the plane's steering and stabilisation systems.
But prosecutors - who wanted Komar jailed for four years - say there is no evidence to support his claim that the plane malfunctioned.
Prosecutors abandoned a charge that Komar deliberately crashed the Garuda Indonesia plane, conceding they did not have enough evidence to back it up.
If proved, that charge could have seen Komar jailed for life.
Komar's pilot licence was suspended and he was sacked by Garuda after the crash, which was one of several fatal Indonesian airline crashes in 2007.
The Australians killed in the crash were diplomat Liz O'Neill, AusAID official Allison Sudradjat, Australian Federal Police officers Brice Steele and Mark Scott, and Australian Financial Review journalist Morgan Mellish.
Five other Australians survived the crash, some of whom were seriously injured.
Despite some improvements since 2007, Indonesia, which relies heavily on air links across the archipelago, still has one of Asia's worst air safety records.