Doomed jet 'crash-landed at double normal speed'

A Garuda Airlines passenger jet was flying at almost double the normal speed when it crash-landed at an Indonesian airport, killing 21 people, it was reported today.

A preliminary accident report prepared by Indonesian authorities pointed to pilot error as the cause of the Boeing 737-400 overshooting the runway and skidding into a rice field on March 7 at Yogyakarta airport, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. A reporter for the newspaper was seriously injured in the crash.