Turkish airliner crashes at Schiphol
 

Apparantly a Turkish airliner crashed at Schiphol, it broke in 3 pieces on the Polderbaan near the A9 autoroute, 135 souls on board.

Crash
 

I live 10 mins from there, wonder what happened!

Turkish Airlines, no fire, 135souls.

According to another website forum, they are saying it was a THY 737-800. Came down short of the runway and in three pieces.

Weather
 

>>> Eham (amsterdam Schiphol) <<<

Metar 250955z 21010kt 4500 Br Bkn007 Ovc008 05/04 Q1027 Tempo 2500

Taf 250522z 2506/2612 22008kt 6000 Br Few012 Bkn016 Becmg
2508/2511 Sct004 Bkn006 Tempo 2508/2521 4000 Br -dz Prob30
Tempo 2508/2514 1200 -dzra Sct002 Bkn003 Becmg 2511/2514
24012kt Becmg 2523/2602 27015kt Becmg 2602/2605 9999 Nsw
Few020 Becmg 2608/2611 28017g28kt

Indeed, trying to phone my friend there. Dutch media reports a 737-800 with 135 pax on board. Witnesses report people walking away from the wreckage and no fire. Broken in 3 pieces short of runway 18R/36L NOT on the airport perimeter. EHAM's closed to all traffic.

BBC news is once again slow, Sky has more just now...

picture
 

Picture here:
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Seems people are able to get out...
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I think it was Flight 1951 which was due in from Instanbul.

Aircraft involved believed to be TC-JGE a Boeing 737-800.

Eyewitness report
 

Heard on the radio a eyewitness report:

" Saw the turkish airliner lower than normal on approach. Suddenly it pitched up quite steep, but the pilot recovered and a/c assumed a normal attitude. Then the nose tipped down and it fell like a piece of lead into the field. An engine seperated and came to a rest a bit further. some 40-50 ppl vacated the a/c. a/c in 3 pieces, tail broke off, and after approx row 10 close to an emergency exit the fuselage broke aswell. No fire."

Sounded like a relatively accurate report.

Pretty unusual for there to be no fire if it broke in to three pieces. Could this be a rare out of fuel event? Pure speculation on my part I admit but there is no other information available at this stage.

Eric Moody (Whom I respect immensely) has said on Sky 'Holland is very flat'......:ugh:

Detailed pic:

NOSJOURNAAL - Vliegtuig gecrasht bij Schiphol

It seems that no emergency was declared by the crew prior to the accident.

Birds ??

Casualties reported according to this:

Turkish Airlines plane crashes in Amsterdam, at least 40 survived

Turkish Airlines plane crashes in Amsterdam, at least 40 survived
A Turkish Airlines plane has crashed during landing at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, TV channels reported on Wednesday. Transportation Ministry officials said around 40 people have survived, broadcaster NTV reported.

A Dogan News Agency reporter at the scene said the plane broke into three sections and some passengers immediately started to evacuate the plane.

Turkish Airlines flight TK 1951 crashed during landing at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Wednesday.

Dogan News Agency said 135 passengers were on board and there were casualties.Turkish TV channels reported that eight crew members were also on board the flight.

Dogan News Agency (DHA) reported citing Dutch officials that 135 passengers were on board and there were casualties.

NTV broadcaster said at least 40 people may have been survived.

The plane reportedly broke into three sections upon impact, DHA said.

The plane was a Boeing 737-800 type, CNNTurk reported.

Could say that..

TACT/CASA MESSAGE : XCD - CLOSURE
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REF : CLOSURE OF ROTTERDAM (EHRD)
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DUE TO : LACK OF PARKING/CANNOT BE USED AS EHAM ALTERNATE
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REG ID : EHRDA25
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VALID : WEF: WIE UNTIL: 1230 UTC (ESTIMATED)
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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:
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-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.
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CFMU OPERATIONS DIVISION-BRUSSELS.


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

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

Rotterdam filling up
 

looking out of the window... rotterdam is filling up rapidly.

Interesting for fuel policies of airlines. As at Madrid, when there is a significant emergency, the airfield closes, no matter how many runways it has. Now the common alternate is closed - interesting to see how many aircraft would have nominated Rotterdam as their alternate, as I reckon 90% would. My company's fuel policy does not allow for these sorts of planning contingencies.

Turkish press reporting 1 dead, 20 injured.

126 people on board.
1 flight attendant with serious injuries.

HÜRRÝYET - TÜRKÝYE'NÝN AÇILIÞ SAYFASI

BBC reporting up to 50 survivors at the moment.

They are also quoting Dutch TV "dozens of survivors seen walking away from the wreckage"

I hope everyone gets out OK, although looking at that picture I would be very surprised.