Garuda Indonesia November 2017. The last time Los Angeles was served was in 1997. As of 2018, however, the plan is yet to be realized. In February 2017, Garuda Indonesia announced that the airline will resume flights to Dubai and Moscow using wide body aircraft Airbus A330-200. This flight is planned to be resumed in 2018. In August 2018, Garuda Indonesia announced that the airline will end flights to London Heathrow by October, and is set to return by November with its Boeing 777-300ER on the same year. Codesharing has allowed Garuda Indonesia to expand services into Western Europe and the Middle
Garuda Indonesia Flight 865 involved was the fifth of the six, PK-GIE. The aircraft involved was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, registration PK-GIE. One of six (PK-GIA to PK-GIF) in the Garuda fleet at the time of the accident, it had its first flight on 24 April 1979 and was delivered to Garuda Indonesia on 27 July 1979. Eighteen years and eleven months old at the time of the accident, it was the 284th DC-10 built; its MSN number was 46685. The aircraft had three General Electric CF6-50C2 turbofan engines for propulsion. The cause of the engine failure leading to the crash was that the