Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 Crash Near Schiphol (Photos, Video)
Turkish Airlines Flight 1951, flying from Istanbul to Amsterdam, crashed at 10:40 a.m. Wednesday in a field near Schiphol International Airport and close to a residential neighborhood. The flight carried 127 passengers and a crew of seven. Nine people were killed and more than 50 were injured, according to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Photos show the plane lying in a field, broken into three sections. The Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 was approaching Schiphol for landing. According to Turkish Transportation Minister Binali Yildirim, at least 25 passengers were seriously injured.
The captain, Hasan Tahsin Arisan, is a former air force pilot and very experienced, according to Gideon Evers, head of Turkish Airlines.
Amsterdam media reports indicate that witnesses saw the nose of the plane pitch up suddenly before the crash. One passenger related that the back of the plane hit the ground first, breaking the airliner into three sections. Many of those on board were able to walk off the plane through cracks in the fuselage.
A bank manager who escaped without injury told NTV that their approach seemed normal until it suddenly felt as if the plane had fallen into a void, followed by turbulence that lasted from 3-5 seconds and then a sudden impact. He said that no advance warning was provided by the pilot, whose last communication was an instruction to fasten all seat belts for landing.
The initial impact onto the muddy field sheared off the hot engines and the loose soil likely absorbed the leaking fuel, which may have saved the plane from igniting into flames, according to Evers, who went on to say, “Certainly it appears to be an unusual circumstance, but as always the sensible course of action is to wait for the results of the investigation into the causes leading up to the accident.”
Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 passenger list available here.
Check out video footage below.
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Justice For The Clarence Center 50 – FIRE FAA’s Lynne Osmus and Hank Krakowski
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America continues to learn that the victims of the Clarence Center aviation disaster were great people.
But one example:
The late “Dawn Monachino of Clarence typically drove 10 hours round-trip to Pennsylvania, every two weeks, to be with her mother, who has Alzheimer’s disease”.
Dawn was a hero. So were her fellow passengers. They died to make our air travel safer. But they should not have been taken from us.
Quiet Rockland extends thoughts, sympathies, and prayers to families and friends of the victims of the horrible airplane crash which occurred near Buffalo, New York in the nearby hamlet of Clarence Center, Continental (Connections) Flight #3407, on Friday, February 13, 2009. The crash of Flight #3407 was but part of the legacy of harmful malfeasance rendered to us by now-exited failed Acting FAA Administrator Robert Allan (“Bobby”) Sturgell, now-exited failed FAA “Safety Officer” Nicholas Sabatini – and still-in-office FAA COO Hank Krakowski and Acting FAA Administrator Lynne A. (Dobler) Osmus.
The victims of the Flight #3407 crash were kind and decent people, with hopes and dreams. None of them deserved to die at the hands of malicious bureaucrats. We again call upon the President, USDOT Secretary LaHood, and Congress, to immediately remove Lynne Osmus and Hank Krakowski from FAA and from all other government work, permanently. We again call upon President, USDOT Secretary LaHood, and Congress, to now give FAA the top-to-bottom clean-out of other FAA personnel recommended by Congressman Oberstar last year, before Flight #3407 ever happened. If the clean-out of FAA had happened already, the crash of Flight #3407 may not have happened. Finally, we want a Congressional investigation into the circumstances of the timing of the hasty departure announcement by NTSB Member Steven R. Chealander, which announcement occurred but a week after he commenced work on the February 13 Flight #3407 crash. We want answers. We want justice. We want a new FAA.
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