A Turkish passenger jet crashed as it tried to land at Amsterdam's main airport Wednesday, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 55, Dutch airport authorities have said.
A passenger on the plane who spoke to Turkish network DHA said he saw injured people trapped and squeezed between the seats when he walked off the plane.
Flight 1951, which originated from Istanbul, Turkey, was trying to land at Schiphol when it went down at about 10:40 a.m. local time, Dutch airport officials said.
At least three crew members were among the dead.
All the passengers, however, had been removed from the plane as of about 5 p.m. (11 a.m. ET), officials said. Roads around the crash site had been blocked to traffic.
Pictures from the scene showed the plane broken in three pieces. One tear was in front of the wing, splitting the "Turkish" logo in two, and a larger tear was farther back along he fuselage.
The plane landed in a flat farmer's field near the airport, RTL journalist Greg Crouch told CNN. He said the weather at the time was partly sunny with no wind or rain.
He said he felt the pilot giving more power to the engines before feeling "turbulence," then a sudden drop. He described the crash as similar to a sudden impact that was over in a matter of seconds.
Survivors of the crash were taken to Schiphol airport by bus, journalist Elouise Defauwe of the newspaper Hetparool told CNN.
Kieran Daly, of Air Transport Intelligence said the impact had been severe but it could have been survivable because of the lack of fire. He added that there had been vast improvements in the materials used to build airplanes, meaning they did not burn as easily.
Turkish Airlines said it has 52 Boeing 737-800s in its fleet. They can carry as many as 165 passengers each, the airline said.
LONDON - A game turned tragic for two young brothers, who accidentally locked themselves in the trunk of their parents car, while trying to hide inside it. They were found dead about four hours after they were reported missing.
"Preliminarily, it appears that this is just a tragedy," said state trooper Don Trosper. "These boys were out playing and they accidentally got themselves locked in the trunk."
The bodies were found in the trunk of a 1996 car at their mother's home, Laurel County Coroner Doug Bowling said. Federal law requires cars made beginning in 2002 to have release latches inside the trunk.
Bowling identified the boys as 8-year-old Chase Baker and 11- year-old Coty Baker.
Two people were killed in a bizarre accident when a truck tumbled 14 feet over a Woodall Rodgers Freeway ramp and crushed a car passing underneath, police said.
Ashley Parra, 22 year old UNT student, was driving at job on same route as every day, when 18-wheeler fell onto her car.
Authorities said it appeared the truck's load, a large amount of metal pipe stems, may have shifted and led to the deadly accident.
"I've never seen anything like it," Dallas police Sgt. Gil Cerda said. "Another vehicle falling on your vehicle as you're traveling is just unbelievable."
A waitress at Hooters, Ashley Parra was only a half mile from her work when the truck drove off the ramp.
"She had good grades, she had a lot of potential and she was going to grow up and be somebody someday, and now she's gone," Ms. Castro said of Ms. Parra, a student at the University of North Texas.
Parra was in her first semester at UNT and was studying to become a teacher. Before that, her grandmother said she spent two years studying law at Southern Methodist University.
Police said they were investigating the possibility that speed was a factor in the crash.
"Obviously he was going too fast for his load," Sgt. Harris said. "It doesn't matter what his speed was, it was too fast to go around that curve."
Cars, trucks, ships, planes... all crashed on crazy, stupid and funny ways.