A Turkish Airlines plane carrying 135 people has crashed while coming in to land at Amsterdam´s Schiphol airport, according to officials and reports.

The CNN Turk TV station said at least one person was killed in the impact and 20 injured. The Boeing 737-800, which had reportedly flown from Istanbul, split into three sections as it came down in a field close to the airport. Photographs of the crashed plane shown on Turkish television showed the fuselage split near the front of the wing and the tail section sheared off.

A Turkish Airlines official at Schiphol airport told Turkey´s NTV channel that at least 50 passengers appeared to be safe. They were outside the stricken plane wading through luggage which had been strewn across the scene.

The airport, one of the main aviation hubs in Europe, confirmed the crash had taken place but gave no further details.

Airport police spokesman Rob Stenacker told Associated Press that emergency services were responding to a reported crash but could give no further details.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/25/plane-crash-amsterdam-schiphol-turkish

thanks God no more victims!!!

yeap I  have been watching it on tele here  thankgod not tooo many lifes lost

Awful - but as you both said, a miracle  more lives weren´t lost.

(further into the report it does say that actually no-one was killed)

Terrible...there seems to be so many crashes lately

How awful!! Was it some sort of technical fault again?

well as always, unfortunately it says five people died

I´ve just seen it on the news. It is a miracle indeed that only 5 people lost their lives...

Terrible news .....but a real miracle indeed .

It says here that 9 people died..

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090225/ap_on_re_eu/netherlands_plane_crash

Dutch news:

Video with audio fragments from Schiphol Airport Tower just after the crash (in English):

http://player.nos.nl/index.php/media/play/tcmid/tcm:5-483657/

Information in Turkish:

http://www.nos.nl/nosjournaal/artikelen/2009/2/25/250209_schiphol_crash_turks.html

All other reports are in Dutch, no subtitles available.

Claims are that the crash might be caused due to shortage of fuel. More and more airlines take as least as possible fuel to save weight.

Whatever the cause, it would appear we have another example of skillful piloting which played a big part in saving lives. 

Had the pilot not managed to make that open field, the toll would undoubtedly be higher.

 It´s hard - from the direction they came from - NOT to end up in an open field. Everything there is flat and there are hardly any houses.

Both pilots are dead and their bodies still stuck in the cockpit. Firemen are doing what they can to release the bodies.

DER SPIEGEL, here are scenes:

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-40069-8.html

And another article

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=167963

+1

By the way, have you ever flown in a plane piloted by a Turkish ex-air-force pilot? They are great, but ascent at a 80 degree angle while the non-air-force passengers are experiencing 4Gs in the back . 

 I think I am gonna pass on that experience! 

The latest reports from from Germany....the apprentice pilot was apparently  in charge of the landing maneuver  failed directing the plane to the runway

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1155022/Miracle-mud-100-passengers-survive-plane-crash.html

horrible thats what i feel whenever im in a plane.

According to Dutch news the cause of the crash will be clear on Monday. Then the black box and the pieces of the airplane will be examened thouroughly.

with this black box thing im not quite sure. it happens so that i never heard anyone annoucning the results of the so called examination.

 According to law they have to, there´s a right of information here.

no worry, its just me, the dumb

 And did you know the black box is actually orange? 

 It must have been invented in England then..... similar to our "private" public schools

i didnt know. but black box sounds intruiging though.

 I could provide you with a link but I can´t be bothered............ also called a voice recorder.

not a link!

 Now you make me feel bad.............. Link 

 .......whereas ´orange box´ sounds like something you´d find in a greengrocer´s!

Link

Some more updates on the possible cause

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=168682

 I have read that a faulty altimeter was the cause,  in two separate papers in the UK.

Beylikdüzü street named for THY pilot 

A street in the Beylikdüzü Municipality has been named after pilot Hasan Tahsin Arýsan, the captain of the Turkish Airlines (THY) flight that crash-landed in Holland last week.

The Beylikdüzü mayor, Vehbi Orakçý, announced the decision of the municipal council after a Friday morning meeting in a bulletin issued by the municipality´s press office. The former 26th Caddesi in Beylikdüzü´s Merkez neighborhood was renamed Þehit (Martyr) Pilot Hasan Tahsin Arýsan Caddesi. Orakçý said the municipal council members were deeply affected by news of the crash, which killed five Turks and four Americans. He wished for God´s mercy upon those who died in the crash and extended his condolences to the families of the deceased, and a speedy recovery to those injured in the accident.

Source: http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=168876&bolum=101