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 the reason why Qian Cai, the book's author, linked Yue with Garuda is because of the homology in their Chinese names. Yue Fei's courtesy name is Pengju (鵬舉). A Peng (鵬) is a giant mythological bird likened to the Middle Eastern Roc. Garuda's Chinese name is Great Peng, the Golden-Winged Illumination King (大鵬金翅明王). The garuda is a yaksha or guardian for Shantinatha in Jain iconography and mythology. Jain iconography shows Garuda as a human figure with wings and a strand-circle. In India, Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia the eagle symbolism is represented by Garuda, a large bird with