A Turkish Airlines passenger plane with 134 people aboard crashed in light fog while trying to land at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday, and Dutch television said 5 people had been killed. "The aircraft crashed in a field outside the airport perimeter," an official at Schiphol, Europe's fourth-busiest airport, said. "All rescue operations are in full swing."
Dutch television said 5 people had been killed. A news conference was due to take place at Schiphol around 1230 GMT (7:30 a.m. EST).
Dutch television showed what appeared to be covered bodies on the ground near the crashed single-aisle Boeing 737 jetliner. Eyewitnesses and officials on television also said there were bodies on the ground.
Images showed the crumpled plane in three parts, with the tail section of the fuselage broken off, and a wide crack in the fuselage just behind the cockpit. The airliner had not caught fire.
"We are in the middle of a field now, approximately 5-6 km from the airport," Survivor Mustafa Bahcecioglu told Turkish broadcaster Channel 24.
"The majority of the passengers are injured but there are people who are not injured. Around 30 ambulances have come," he said.
Airport officials said the crashed aircraft was a Boeing 737-800, flight TK 1951 from Istanbul.
Earlier, there were conflicting reports on the number of deaths, or whether anyone had died.
In Istanbul, Turkish Airlines Chief Executive Temel Kotil said nobody on board the flight had died.
Turkish Airlines Chairman Candan Karlitekin told a news conference in Istanbul there were 127 passengers, including a baby, on board and seven crew.
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