of turkey airline plane crashed in schiphol, amsterdam

20 Hurt as Turkish Plane Crashes in Amsterdam: Turkish Airlines flight TK1951 carrying 127 passengers and seven crew members crashed near Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, the airline said. The Boeing 737-800 aircraft broke into three parts after it slammed into the grass about 3 miles from the runway. The aircraft did not catch fire. About 20 people were injured.

Initial reports said that one person died in the wreckage. But The Associated Press quoted Turkish Airlines as saying that there were no deaths among the 127 passengers and seven crew on the plane, Turkish Airlines flight TK1951, that left Istanbul at 8:22 a.m. on Wednesday. Temel Kotil, the chief executive of the airline, said at a news conference in Istanbul that 20 people were injured in the accident. The crash took place in calm weather with a light drizzle. Unlike a deadly accident in Madrid last summer when a Spanair flight crashed while taking off, no fire broke out during Wednesday’s crash. The Turkish aircraft would have been low on fuel as it approached its destination.

A Turkish Airlines passenger plane lay broken in a field after it attempted to land at the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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