NETHERLANDS: Injured survivors of Turkish Airlines crash at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport are rushed to nearby hospitals

Record ID: 806280

  • Title: NETHERLANDS: Injured survivors of Turkish Airlines crash at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport are rushed to nearby hospitals
  • Date: 23rd February 2009
  • Summary: BADHOEVEDORP, NEAR AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS (FEBRUARY 25, 2009) (REUTERS) AMBULANCE VEHICLES TRANSPORTING INJURED TO BADHOEVEDORP TRAUMA CENTRE NEAR AMSTERDAM VARIOUS OF BUSES TAKING PASSENGERS TO BADHOEVEDORP TRAUMA CENTRE MORE OF AMBULANCE VEHICLES MAKING THEIR WAY TO BADHOEVEDORP TRAUMA CENTRE VARIOUS OF AMBULANCE VEHICLES ARRIVING TO BADHOEVEDORP TRAUMA CENTRE
  • Embargoed: 10th March 2009 12:00
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  • Location: Netherlands
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes,Health
  • Reuters ID: LVA7OY74JBS8B62DKQK0VUH08ROT
  • Story Text: More then 80 people injured during Turkish Airlines crash at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport are rushed to the nearby hospitals.
    Injured survivors of the Turkish Airlines crash at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport that killed nine people on Wednesday (February 25), have been transported to nearby hospitals.
    Flight flight TK 1951 from Istanbul crashed at 10:31 a.m. (0931 GMT) into a field while trying to land at Schiphol, Europe's fifth-largest airport by passenger volume.
    Officials said some 84 people were taken to hospitals in Amsterdam as well as nearby Haarlem, including 25 who were severely hurt. Six were in critical condition.
    The Boeing 737-800, broke up when it hit the ground several hundred metres north of a runway at Schiphol, which is 20 km (12 miles) southwest of Amsterdam's centre.
    The crash appeared to be the worst since an El Al cargo plane crashed into high-rise apartment blocks in a southeastern suburb of Amsterdam in October 1992, killing 43 people, 39 of them on the ground.
    Turkish Airlines Chairman Candan Karlitekin told a news conference in Istanbul there were 127 passengers, including a baby, on board and seven crew.
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