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9 Killed as a Turkish Airlines Plane Crashes in Amsterdam

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2009-02-26 00:00:00

PARIS — A Turkish Airlines jet carrying 134 people crashed in a field on its approach to Amsterdam’s international airport on Wednesday, killing at least 9 people and seriously injuring 25, airport authorities and Turkish officials said.

Witnesses said the plane was making its final approach about 10:30 a.m. when it suddenly dropped like a stone into a muddy field about 200 yards from Schiphol Airport’s perimeter fence, dragging its tail and then smashing onto its belly and splitting apart. Television images showed the plane, a Boeing 737-800, lying fractured in three chunks, with its wings intact and its tail section and engines some distance away.

Image Emergency crews worked Wednesday outside Schiphol Airport, where a Boeing 737-800 fell suddenly in a field on its approach. Credit... Paul Vreeker/Getty Images

But the aircraft did not catch fire, and on Wednesday night, an official with the Dutch safety board said the cockpit flight recorder had been retrieved and was being sent to Paris for analysis to help determine what caused the crash.

The weather was calm, with a light drizzle. Dutch air traffic controllers would say nothing about whether there was any distress signal as the plane neared the end of its nearly four-hour flight from Istanbul.

Ambulances and rescue helicopters reached the scene quickly.

Twenty-five people were seriously injured, including six who were in critical condition, a spokeswoman for the local health authorities, Ineke Van der Zande, said at a news conference at the airport. She said 24 other people had lighter injuries. Eighty-four passengers were taken to regional hospitals.
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