9 dead, Turkish airliner crashes at Turkish airliner crashes at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport

A Turkish Airlines passenger plane with 135 people aboard crashed in light fog while trying to land at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday, killing nine. Airport officials said the crashed aircraft was a Boeing 737-800, flight TK 1951 from Istanbul.The plane, on a flight from Istanbul, broke up when it hit the ground north of a runway at Schiphol, which is 20 km (12 miles) southwest of Amsterdam's center.

Flight 1951 had left Istanbul early Wednesday morning, bound for the Netherlands. The jet crashed on approach to Schiphol, one of Europe's busiest airports. Turkish officials identified the plane as a Boeing jet built in 2003(Boeing 737-800) and last inspected in December. The 737-800 is a new aircraft, the re-engineered and redesigned next generation of the original 737 which has for several decades been renowned as the workhorse of the skies.