Turkey plane crashes in Amsterdam, Turkish Airlines plane at Amsterdam airport, The plane crashed away from the runway
(Source BBC News, Photo NOS.nl)
For our Turkish readers, Reports say: 135 people on board, no or very few fatalities. According to Eye Witness reports, the plane simply dropped out of the air from very low altitude on near approach to the runway, the accident looks like a technical failure - with a heroic effort from the pilots to keep the plane in the air and reach the runway.
Update 18.45 CET Amsterdam, according to the latest report on NOS.nl (Dutch Television), there were 8 fatalities, 6 critical wounded and 86 wounded victims of the crash.
We apologize for the delay in reporting but we only put this on the site for our Turkish Visitors before we had to leave for other activities. However, reporting about the crash has been all afternoon on the Dutch, Turkish and International Media and TV.
A Turkish Airlines plane has crashed on landing at Amsterdam's Schiphol international airport.
The plane, with 135 passengers on board, crashed near the A9 motorway and suffered significant damage.
It was Flight 1951 from Istanbul and was a 737-800 aircraft.
One person has been killed, and 20 passengers were injured. But Turkish media said at least 50 people had survived unhurt and some 20 people were seen walking away from the plane.
The BBC's Geraldine Coughlan in the Hague says Dutch television has been showing pictures of helicopters at the scene, with about 20 ambulances and fire engines.
Schiphol is the fifth-largest passenger airport in Europe.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7909683.stm
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