More than 80 injured, nine killed in Schiphol crash

More than 80 people were injured and nine killed when a Turkish Airlines plane crashed Wednesday morning while trying to land at an Amsterdam airport, a Dutch official said.

"More than 80 people were taken to about 11 hospitals," emergency services spokeswoman Ineke van der Zande told a press conference at Schiphol Airport.

"Six of them are critically wounded; we cannot tell at this stage whether they will survive. Twenty-five were seriously wounded, and 24 suffered light injuries."

The nature of the injuries of the others had yet to be determined, Van der Zande said.

Mayor Michel Bezuijen of the Haarlemmermeer municipality, under which the Schiphol Airport falls, said three of the nine killed were crew members, their bodies still trapped in the cockpit of the ill-fated Boeing.

There had been seven crew on board.

All 127 passengers had been removed from the wreckage."At this moment, we are doing an analysis of the passenger list to confirm the nationalities," said Bezuijen. Istanbul governor Muammer Guler said earlier the death toll had been revised upwards to 10.

AFP