Turkish Airliner Crash in Amsterdam

[ShaneG_old]

Just seen a breaking news report, it's 5:30am here, so anyone in Europe got any more info?

All they know here is that it crashed on landing at Schipol and broke into 2 or 3 major pieces, but no fire thank goodness.

[Craig.]

official statement that no one has died. so good news.

[Souichiro]

close to my favorite spottersplaces, the news here is that there are no fatal injuries.... quite miraculous!

[ShaneG_old]

Glad to hear that! Details here are still pretty sketchy and they just keep repeating the same stuff.

[Souichiro]

I found some pictures but also shows medical personell working on victims so I don't know if the links are suitable for anyone, there's no blood or gore or anything like that but it shows the aircraft really well

[Souichiro]

Unfortunately, Dutch media is now reporting a possible 4 or 5 casualties, press conference in 20 mins I'll keep you updated in case cnn doesnt

[ShaneG_old]

They're showing the footage of the rescue workers now, but still reporting everyone Ok.  They haven't said what kind of plane yet either. A little hard to tell from the pics I'm seeing.

[Souichiro]

Unfortunately the mayor of Haarlemmermeer reported 9 confirmed fatalities with over 50 wounded of which 25 seriously. The next press conference is at 16:00 local time ( in about 2 hours)

The plane was a 737-800

[Wii]

Well, at least it did not break earlier. It looks like it broke apart near where it stopped. No fire, very lucky. 9 is still too many people to go...

[Sytse]

Most of the information flow seems to have stopped now. Here's the information I could gather so far. Please note that not all of the information is officially confirmed yet and a lot of it could be based on speculation and/or rumours alone.

The website of Schiphol (http://www.schiphol.nl/index_uk.html) reports that at 10.31 this morning flight TK 1951 of Turkish Airlines, coming from Istanbul went down just north of the Polderbaan runway. The Boeing 737-800 was carrying 127 passengers and 8 crew members. Upon impact, the plane broke down into three main pieces.

During the press conference it was confirmed that 9 people were killed in the crash and over 50 were wounded, including 25 heavily wounded.

An information hotline is available for passengers

[ShaneG_old]

Thanks for the very in-depth report and the maps and links. This could have been so much worse than what it appears to be so far.

Still a tragic loss of life though.

The running out of fuel certainly raises a lot of questions. :-/

[Sytse]

Thanks for the very in-depth report and the maps and links. This could have been so much worse than what it appears to be so far.

Still a tragic loss of life though.

The running out of fuel certainly raises a lot of questions. :-/

You're welcome, but again, please note that the running out of fuel is only speculation.

The next press conference has been delayed for half an hour (16.30 European time).

[Sytse]

New information from the press conference:

134 passengers were aboard the plane
9 confirmed fatalities, including 3 crew who are still in the cockpit.
6 critically wounded.
25 heavily wounded
24 lightly wounded
31 people with injuries that need to be examined further.

84 people were taken to 11 different hospitals. Rescue operations included 60 ambulances and 150 personnel. There were also some trauma helicopters and special vehicles with tracks to get the injured out of the muddy field.

The "black boxes" (I guess they are talking about the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder) have been found.

A special flight with family and friends has departed from Istanbul. The Turkish government thanked the Dutch government for making an exception on visa regulations.

The next press conference will be at 19.15, European time. I don't think there will be news about the cause of the crash though.

Apparantly flight TK1951 didn't dump fuel over the ocean before landing, as it was supposed to. This might point to a lack of fuel. However, these are all still rumours.

Video of the crash site here: http://www.rtl.nl/components/actueel/rt ... _plain.xml

[Ivan]

9 dead at time of writing...

Probably full of holiday returnees.

Media is already starting a THY bashing session. Turkish airlines have a bad reputation here.

But they were lucky... it could have ended much worse... on the highway or crashing into the road dike

[Alejandro Rhodes]

What could happpend? No Fire? a Boeing 737-800? this is weird  :-/