An Indonesian pilot has gone on trial accused of deliberately causing a deadly airliner crash, the first time a pilot has been charged over an aviation disaster in the country.
Marwoto Komar, who faces a life sentence if he is convicted, said nothing as his trial began in the central Javanese city of Yogyakarta on Thursday.
21 people and injured 112 people.

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) - The pilot of an Indonesian passenger jet that crashed last year, killing 21 people, was charged Thursday with deliberately causing the disaster when he appeared in court.
Marwoto Komar, a former captain from flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, could face life in prison if convicted of the charge.
e charges being read out and was then adjourned until August 4 when the defence will get a chance to reply.

The pilot of an Indonesian plane that crashed at an airport on Java island last year, killing 21 people, has gone on trial accused of negligence.
A report into the crash at Yogyakarta concluded that he had been flying too fast and landed at too steep an angle.
alian then-Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on a visit to the city. The minister was travelling on a separate plane.

AP YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia: The pilot of an Indonesian jetliner that crashed killing 21 people went on trial Thursday accused of negligence, a charge that

The Garuda Airlines pilot who crash-landed a passenger jet in Yogyakarta last year faces the prospect of life imprisonment if found guilty at his trial which begins today.
The pilot faces charges of deliberate destruction and killing, and criminal negligence. Five Australians were among the 21 people killed in the crash. Aviation safety experts, pilot advocates and relatives of those killed say putting the pilot in prison will not address the airport deficiencies which exacerbated the disaster.
s facing five main charges and other subsidiary offences mostly alleging criminal negligence causing death. But the most serious charge - carrying a maximum sentence of life in prison - accuses him of causing death by deliberately destroying an aircraft.

By Stephen Fitzpatrick in Jakarta PROSECUTORS will argue today that Garuda pilot Marwoto Komar deliberately crashed the Boeing 737-400 that killed 21 people

Black day ... smoke pours from the fuselage of the Garuda plane at Yogyakarta in March last year.
Black day ... smoke pours from the fuselage of the Garuda plane at Yogyakarta in March last year.
ve Australians, begins today. He has never spoken publicly about the Boeing 737's descent, but his police interrogation report, which is central to the case, has been obtained by Herald.

The trial will begin this week of a Garuda Indonesia pilot over a crash in 2007 that killed 21 people when the plane he was flying skidded off the runway at Yogyakarta Airport, a prosecutor and lawyer said.
Captain Marwoto Komar, who was arrested in February, would be charged under Indonesian criminal and aviation law, said Abdul Hakim Ritonga, deputy attorney general for general crimes.
eport said the aircraft "was flown at an excessive air speed and steep flight path angle during the approach and landing, resulting in an unstabilised approach".