Indonesian police have laid criminal charges against the captain of the Garuda Indonesia Boeing 737-400 that crashed on landing last year at Yogyakarta airport killing 21 people.

Reports from Indonesia, quoting the pilot’s lawyer Muhamad Assegaff, say the captain Marwoto Komar has been questioned by police and charged with manslaughter.

The lawyer claims the police case uses information contained in the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Commission (NTSC) report into the crash. He says such crash reports cannot be submitted as evidence in criminal cases.

The NTSC in October issued its final report into the 7 March 2007 crash of the Garuda 737-400 in which 21 of the 140 people on board were killed.

In its report the NTSC said the aircraft was going too fast to land, at 221kt (410km/h)

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