'Engine problems may have caused plane crash'

Engine trouble may be behind the Turkish Airlines crash in the Netherlands in which nine people died, the head of the agency investigating the accident said today.

Flight TK1951 from Istanbul crashed about one mile (1.5km) short of the runway at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport yesterday morning, smashing into three pieces and spraying luggage and debris across a field. It was carrying 134 passengers and crew.