TURKEY: Turkish Airlines confirm 9 people dead in Amsterdam crash while Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan says crisis centre is trying to get all the latest information

Record ID: 217472

  • Title: TURKEY: Turkish Airlines confirm 9 people dead in Amsterdam crash while Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan says crisis centre is trying to get all the latest information
  • Date: 23rd February 2009
  • Summary: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (FEBRUARY 25, 2009) (REUTERS) PRESS CONFERENCE WITH TURKISH AIRLINES BOARD CHAIRMAN CANDAN KARLITEKIN (SOUNDBITE) (Turkish) TURKISH AIRLINES BOARD CHAIRMAN CANDAN KARLITEKIN SAYING: "According to reports from The Netherlands' civil aviation officers and airport operators we have lost nine people." PRESS MEMBERS SOUNDBITE (Turkish) TURKISH AIRLINES BOARD
  • Embargoed: 10th March 2009 12:00
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  • Location: Turkey
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes,Transport
  • Reuters ID: LVAY4E91WPQPM8A261LBA7XHOVC
  • Story Text: A Turkish Airlines passenger plane with 135 people aboard crashed in light fog while trying to land at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday (September 25), killing nine, a local official said.
    Haarlemmermeer acting Mayor Michel Bezuijen said 50 people were injured, 25 severely, when flight 1951 crashed at 10:31 local time (0931 GMT) short of a runway at Schiphol, Europe's fifth-largest by passenger volume.
    Turkish Airlines Board Chairman, Candan Karlitekin, said: "According to reports from The Netherlands' civil aviation officers and airport operators we have lost nine people. We have 50 injured who have various scale injuries. But most of them are slightly injured."
    The crumpled plane lay in three parts, with the tail section of the fuselage broken off, and a wide crack in the fuselage just behind the cockpit.
    The airliner had not caught fire.
    Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said:
    "I got information that the plane crashed 400-500 metres from the landing strip in an agricultural area. As a result, the plane's tail broke away and there is a bump on the front side. The investigation is now going on. The plane is a 2002 model and its last servicing was in was in full order, there was no deficiency."
    Airport officials said the crashed aircraft was a Boeing 737-800, flight TK 1951 from Istanbul.
    The plane, on a flight from Istanbul, broke up when it hit the ground north of a runway at Schiphol, which is 20 km (12 miles) southwest of Amsterdam's centre.
    At Schiphol airport, 10 flights were delayed and 10 were cancelled, but otherwise operations were as usual.
    The cause of the crash was still not clear, officials said.
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