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An Indonesian passenger plane crash

landed and burst1 into flames on Wednesday, killing 23 people trapped inside. However, 117 people managed to escape by climbing through the burning ruins to safety, officials said.

The Garuda Airlines Boeing 737-400 shot out flames as it appeared to overpass the runway at Yogyakarta, a city in Indonesia in the centre of the island of Java, 500 kilometers from the capital Jakarta, reports said.

Ruth Bamggadan, a survivor, said that when the plane hit the ground it stopped suddenly. "Things started to fall down and I saw flames outside my window. But once the emergency door was opened a lot of people were able to get out of the plane. When the smoke started to get in the plane, people became really frightened," she said, "but unlike in many other accidents, the evacuation2 was very orderly, with some passengers helping elderly ladies to evacuate." Unfortunately, the people sitting in the front of the plane were the last able to get out. "It’s a pity that some passengers lost their lives," she said.

Downer, a firefighter, who helped the passengers escape from the dangerous plane, didn’t agree with the guess that the crash was made by some people on purpose. He said it appeared to be "just an accident where the aircraft ran off the run-way. Of course, we all feel very sorry." Indonesia has suffered two other transportation accidents in recent months —in January an Adam Air plane disappeared with more than 100 passengers and workers on board, and in late December a ship sank leaving hundreds dead.

Notes:

1. burst v.爆裂

2. evacuation n.疏散

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1. Unlike in many other accidents, passengers in this plane ________.

A. struggled to get off the plane

B. didn’t care about other people’s safety

C. were not very frightened

D. left the plane in good order

2. Bamggadan and Downer were different in the way they _____.

A. expressed their concerns

B. were once in the scene of crash

C. survived the air crash

D. thought about the air crash

3. Compared with other recent transportation accidents in Indonesia, this air crash _____.

A. received more assistance

B. had fewer human losses

C. caused smaller economic losses

D. had no worse effect