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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - An Indonesian passenger jet was flying at up to 265 mph, almost double the normal landing speed, when it crash-landed one month ago, killing 21 people, a chief investigator Saturday.
A preliminary accident report has not yet determined, however, if pilot error caused the Boeing 737-400 to overshoot the runway, skid into a rice field and burst into flames at the Yogyakarta airport, Marjono Siswosuwarno said.
"The plane was flying well above the normal landing speed of 140 knots (160 mph) when it crash-landed," he said, putting the speed as it approached the runway at between 255 mph and 264 mph.
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