Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 37,300 cycles since its first flight in 1992. The captain was 44-year-old Muhammad Marwoto Komar, who had been working with Garuda Indonesia for more than 21 years. He had 13,421 flying hours, including 3,703 hours on the Boeing 737. The first officer was 30-year-old Gagam Saman Rohmana, who had been with the airline for three years and had 1,528 flying hours, including 1,353 hours on the Boeing 737. The oldest airline in Indonesia (founded in 1949), Garuda Indonesia had received a number of criticisms in the months surrounding the crash. According to Australian aviation experts, Garuda Indonesia had one of
Garuda eagle-like features that appears in both Hindu and Buddhist epic as the vahana (vehicle) of the god Vishnu. Garuda became the national emblem of Thailand and Indonesia; Thailand's Garuda is rendered in a more traditional anthropomorphic style, while that of Indonesia is rendered in heraldic style with traits similar to the real Javan hawk-eagle. India primarily uses Garuda as a martial motif: The word Garuda ( – " "Krud" ") is literally derived from Sanskrit. Indonesia uses the Garuda, called the "Garuda Pancasila", as its national symbol. It is somewhat intertwined with the concept of the phoenix. Garuda is found