Reports that Turkish plane dropped from the sky

Survivors of last week’s crash near Amsterdam’s airport have spoken about what occurred.

Travel Insurance News - 02/03/2009

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Investigators are still searching through debris at the crash scene to determine the cause of the accident that killed nine of the people on board the plane.

Henk Heijloo, one survivor, said last announcement he remembers was the captain telling the crew to be seated, and that it was a few moments before he knew something was wrong.

He said: "We were coming in at an odd angle, and I felt the pilot give the plane more gas," and thought perhaps the pilot was aborting the landing, as the plane’s nose came up.

Kerem Uzel, a student on the flight, told a Turkish television reporter that he didn’t know that anything was wrong until the plane was skidding across a muddy field, adjacent to Schiphol airport.

Witnesses on the ground at the time of the crash reported seeing the plane drop straight down from the sky.

Approximately 40 investigators continue their work at the crash site, and the plane's black box recordings are being analysed at a facility in Paris. Sandra Groenendal, speaking on behalf of the Dutch safety authority, said that it was likely an initial assessment of what went wrong before the crash would be released later this week.

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