Turkish plane crashes at Amsterdam airport (25/02/09 ,at least 9 people killed )

Turkish plane crashes at Amsterdam airport

edition.cnn.com

A Turkish airliner crashed at Amsterdam's main airport about 10:40 a.m. Wednesday, airport officials said.

It was not immediately clear whether anyone was hurt. The plane crashed at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, the Netherlands' main airport.

(visit the link for the full news article)



[edit on 25-2-2009 by sty]

[edit on 25-2-2009 by sty]

135 people on-board, not too much published yet however news and updates are expected soon..


The plane was flying from Istanbul to Amsterdam with 135 people on-board.


"It was not immediately clear whether anyone was hurt. The plane crashed at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, the Netherlands' main airport."






edition.cnn.com
(visit the link for the full news article)

The aircraft is said to have split into three parts when it hit the ground next to the runway. The plane is thought to be a Boeing 737-800 and all air traffic in the area has been suspended, Sky News reported

the main CNN pace (just go on www.cnn.com ) published a photo with the aeroplane, I guess there are people that survived the crash , however it is unlikely there are no victims..

Stories here as well BBC seems to be a lot of aircraft coming down lately? makes you wonder if budget cut on maintenance and training is having an effect?

reply to post by solidshot


yes, the race for profit can be blamed. Sure, there are regulations on maintenance, however the companies tend to make sure they never do more than the minimum expected. The only way to repair the situation is to increase the minimum required for the standard maintenance (for companies minimum=maximum). This would increase the price for tickets, however it is worth paying 20 % more and being allive, right?

The CCN cofirmed what i suspected: ""Some passengers are dead, some are injured and some are alive," an airport spokesman tells CNN"

Actually, most Airlines do significantly better mantainence than required.

Nice try though.

reply to post by C0bzz


well, not in my country! we do the minimum required by the aviation standards . And not a penny more!

The Boeing 737-800 tail number TC-JGE was the first 737-800 to be inducted by Turkish Airways in 2002 - the airline have regular training by boeing in maintanance of the new aircraft type.


edit:

LINK FOR PICTURES

www.nos.nl...

edit 2 : diversion notice:

TACT/CASA MESSAGE : XCD - CLOSURE
---------------------------------
.
REF : CLOSURE OF ROTTERDAM (EHRD)
.
DUE TO : LACK OF PARKING/CANNOT BE USED AS EHAM ALTERNATE
.
REG ID : EHRDA25
.
VALID : WEF: WIE UNTIL: 1230 UTC (ESTIMATED)
.
REMARKS : -FLIGHTS INTENDING TO OPERATE AFTER THE
CLOSURE MUST SEND AN FCM AND WILL RECEIVE
A SAM/SRM ACCORDING TO THE RE-OPENING TIME.
-FCM MUST CONTAIN REGULATION ID:
.
-FLIGHTS DIVERTING AND NOT YET DEPARTED MUST CNL
THE FPL AND RE-FILE TO ALTERNATE AERODROME
-FLIGHTS NOT INTENDING TO OPERATE MUST CNL
THEIR FPL BY SENDING A CNL MESSAGE.
.
CFMU OPERATIONS DIVISION-BRUSSELS.


While im at it... Airport Re-opened..

REF : CLOSURE OF AMSTERDAM (EHAM) UPDATE: AIRPORT HAS
RE-OPENED
.
DUE TO : AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT
.
REG ID : EHAMA25
.
NOTE : REGULATION IS IN PLACE WITH REDUCED RATE TILL 1600 UTC

[edit on 25/2/09 by Harlequin]

first report says 1 dead 20 injured
probly gonna be updated real soon with a lot more casualties and injuries, how can a plane crash with 135 and only affect 21

Here's a detailed picture of the plane

Map of crash site


It was Flight 1951

too many speculations as to the cause - the it split along the fasteners for the 3 barrels.

Live stream Dutch tv:

www.nos.nl...


edit to add:









A long distance shot

[edit on 25 Feb 2009 by Hellmutt]

sorry , post removed - i posted some links FOR videos/images, but the ones above are better



[edit on 25-2-2009 by sty]

No one died!


BBC

reply to post by Hellmutt


Very interesting picture. The failure area is very large .. i wonder if the faliure occured before the crash , or if was caused by the crash?

the aircraft came down in 1 piece and snapped on landing at the weakest points (barrel joins)

Just heard an eyewitness report.

A guy saw the plane approaching Schiphol flying very slow at approx. 80 meters altitude, then he saw the tail drop down and it just fell out of the air.

It immediately broke up in 3 pieces and almost right after the crash he saw people walking out of the airplane, it seems there are no casualties.

Wow, survival rates of plane chrashes have gone up last month.

[edit on 25/2/09 by enigmania]

that tv link posted above just shown at least 1/2 dozen bodies under white sheets :O

reply to post by Harlequin


Yes, the news guy just said that 4-5 bodies were removed from the plane sofar.

I guess it was to good to be true to have no casualties.