Aviation in Indonesia The aviation safety records in Indonesia continued to plummet in a series of flight accidents, including Garuda Indonesia Flight 421 emergency landing on the Bengawan Solo River (16 January 2002, killing 1 stewardess), and Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 in Yogyakarta (7 March 2007, killing 21). In June 2007, the European Union banned Garuda Indonesia, along with all other Indonesian airlines, from flying into any European country due to poor safety records. The ban on Garuda Indonesia was lifted in July 2009. By the 2010s, the condition of Indonesian aviation began to improve compared to the previous decade. The air travel
Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 captain was found guilty of negligence and sentenced to two years of imprisonment. The captain's lawyers stated their intention to appeal on the basis that the Convention on International Civil Aviation, to which Indonesia is a party, stipulates that aviation accident investigation reports cannot be used to ascribe blame, but only to determine cause. The Garuda Pilots Association and Indonesian Pilots Federation threatened to strike in protest against the conviction. On 29 September 2009, by the Indonesian High Court overturned the conviction, which found that the prosecutors had failed to prove that the pilot was “officially and convincingly guilty of