Indonesia: Pilot denies deliberately crashing airliner

A pilot pleaded not guilty today to charges he deliberately crash-landed a passenger jet killing 21 people.

A pilot pleaded not guilty today to charges he deliberately crash-landed a passenger jet killing 21 people.

Captain Marwoto Komar, who faces a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, was flying a Garuda Boeing 737 that overshot the runway at Yogyakarta airport in March last year then burst into flames.

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