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This is the story of Garuda airlines flight 200. On the 7th of march 2007 a garuda indonesia boeing 737 was to make the flight from soekarno hatta international airport to Yogyakarta. The plane had 133 passengers two pilots and 5 flight attendants on board. The flight was to leave early on in the morning and that day they were having some trouble with the left hand engine thrust reverser, so the pilots called up the ground techs and they reset the thrust reverser and the problem went away. With that issue out of the way the pilots took the 737 to the runway and they took off with the captain being the pilot flying for this leg of the flight while the first officer kept an eye on everything. At the top of the descent the pilots were briefing their approach into yogyakarta but while they were doing this the pilots still had to make radio calls. With the plane lined up with the runway the controllers on the ground at yogakarta let the pilots know that they had been cleared for a visual landing on runway 09. They could now descend to 2500 feet. The crew had the ILS of the runway tuned in on their avionics stack just so that they would be able to get a little bit of guidance on their way down. As the plane lined up with the runway the captain relaized that somethign was wrong, the plane was too high and he needed to lose about 4000 feet in altitude and with how close the plane was getting to the runway hed have to do it fast. So the captain put the plane into a descent. At this point the plane had picked up some serious speed and they were well above 250 knots. As they dropped the captain mentioned that strong winds were buffeting the plane. But despite all that the captain had done the plane was still too high and now the runway was starting to creep up on them. The realization that this approach might be too unstable was starting to dawn on the pilots. The captain said “the target is 6 point 6 ILS, we will not reach it”. Now the captain wanted to do a trade, he wanted to trade off his excess height and speed, but he did not succeed in doing that the plane started to fly erratically and the pitch of the plane varied quite a lot. In an attempt to bleed off some of the excess speed that they had picked up on their way down the pilots started to extend the flaps hoping that the extra drag would slow the plane down. It still wasnt enough the captain exclaimed, “oh there is something not right”, despite everything that the captain had done the plane was still above the glideslope. To get down to the runway the pilot put the plane into a steep approach path. This as you all know was not standard procedure. Far from it. The pitch varied from 3.5 degrees nose up to 3.8 degrees nose down and the rate of descent peaked at 3500 feet per minute. The plane was now starting to give the pilots sink rate warnings they lost altitude. The plane was still too fast at 240 knots. It was so bad that the pilots couldn't extend the flaps of the 737 to where it needed to be for the landing as extending the flaps to the landing setting at this speed would definitely damage the plane. At this time the plane was giving them too low terrain warnings at this point you're supposed to pull the plane out of the dive command max power and then get to safety. But these pilots did not do that, they pushed ahead with the approach. When the plane was 217 feet off of the ground the first officer told the captain to go around but the captain diregarded the first officers pleas. The captain was being told by the plane and the first officer to go around but he did not budge. He kept going with the approach. The captain then strangely asks his first officer if the landing checklist had been completed.
the plane lost altitude and touched down on the runway it was obvious that something was wrong. This plane was going way too fast. The plane touched down and then bounced. The first officer asked the captain to go around but the captain did not heed his advice. The plane hit the runway again, compressing the gear all the way this time. The pilots were now struggling to keep this plane on the runway centerline right now. But the pilots were fighting a losing battle.