AMSTERDAM (AP) — A Turkish Airlines jetliner plummeted out of cloudy skies and plowed into a muddy field on approach to Amsterdam on Wednesday, but remarkably some 125 people — the vast majority of those aboard — survived. The nine dead included both pilots.The Boeing 737-800 en route from Istanbul to Amsterdam broke into three pieces when it hitthe ground about two miles short of the runway at Schiphol Airport at 1031 a.m. (0931GMT, 0431 EST). The fuselage split in two, close to the cockpit, and the tail broke off. Butthe wreckage didn’t burn and scores of people walked away from it.——Contact the Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
Scores survive plane crash in Amsterdam, 9 dead
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February 25, 2009