Turkish Airlines plane crash AMS

Scubabe

Anyone travelling to AMS today please be aware of major delays and probable cancellations



Breaking News
10:24am UK, Wednesday February 25, 2009

A Turkish Airlines plane has crashed while trying to land at Amsterdam's Schipol airport.

The aircraft, carrying 135 passengers, split into three parts when it hit the ground next to the runway.

The plane is thought to be a Boeing 737-800.

All air traffic in the area has been suspended.

As many as 50 people are thought to have escaped injury, according to reports.


Sky News Link

sturll

Scubabe wrote: »

Breaking News
10:24am UK, Wednesday February 25, 2009

A Turkish Airlines plane has crashed while trying to land at Amsterdam's Schipol airport.

The aircraft, carrying 135 passengers, split into three parts when it hit the ground next to the runway.

The plane is thought to be a Boeing 737-800.

All air traffic in the area has been suspended.

As many as 50 people are thought to have escaped injury, according to reports.


Sky News Link

Just seen it on Sky News, picture is of a Turkish Airlines plane broken up on the ground.

Terrible news.

inspector_monkfish

sturll wrote: »

A bit early to comment yet but sad news if it is true.

10:25 25Feb09 -AT LEAST ONE DEAD, 20 INJURED IN TURKISH AIRLINES AMSTERDAM CRASH-CNN TURK

10:32 25Feb09 RTRS-1 dead, 20 injured in Amsterdam airport crash-CNN Turk
ISTANBUL, Feb 25 - At least one person was killed and 20 others injured when a Turkish Airlines <THYAO.IS> plane crashed while attempting to land at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday, Turkish broadcaster CNN Turk said.

inspector_monkfish

10:41 25Feb09-TURKISH TRANSPORT MIN SAYS NO DEAD IN TURKISH AIRLINES AMSTERDAM CRASH-CNN TURK

Scubabe

Times Online

February 25, 2009
Turkish Airlines plane crashes at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport
A Turkish Airlines Boeing 737 jet with 135 passengers on board has crashed while attempting to land at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport.
Unconfirmed reports suggest that at least one person has been killed and 20 injured. As many as 50 passengers were reported to have survived, according to one Turkish news agency.
Airport officials said that the aircraft came down on farmland while on its approach to runway 18Left 36Right, and broke into three parts.
Early photographs of the crash appeared to show the plane landed at a steep angle in a ploughed field a couple of hundred yards beyond a ditch at the airport perimeter.
Experts said that it was good news that no significant fire appeared to have broken out.
Air traffic around Schiphol, an extremely busy aviation centre which is one of Europe's main hub airports, has been frozen.
The 737-800 is a new aircraft, the re-engineered and redesigned next generation of the original 737 which has for several decades been renowned as the workhorse of the skies.
Schiphol has an excellent safety record. Turkish Airlines is said to operate a modern fleet of planes with well-trained staff, but its record is not unblemished.

M4RKM

watching this on sky news now...

wow....

inspector_monkfish

12:21 25Feb09 -TURKISH TRANSPORT OFFICIAL TELLS CNN TURK 7 DEAD, AT LEAST 20 INJURED IN AMSTERDAM PLANE CRASH

Tarry

That's really bad I feel for those affected

dealsearcher

All kinds of reason why an aircraft would crash two miles short of the runway. It's just very unusual for it to happen nowadays.

[Deleted User]

Did they run out of fuel?

A plausible explaination to why the plane didn't catch fire on impact.