Probe begins into plane crash

A Turkish Airlines jetliner plummeted out of the mist and ploughed into a muddy field near Amsterdam's main airport, but most people on board - 125 people - survived. The nine dead included both pilots.

A Turkish Airlines jetliner plummeted out of the mist and ploughed into a muddy field near Amsterdam's main airport, but most people on board - 125 people - survived. The nine dead included both pilots.

The Boeing 737-800 was en route from Istanbul to Amsterdam carrying 134 people when it suddenly lost speed and fell out of the sky about two miles short of the runway at Schiphol Airport, investigators said.

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