63 still hospitalized after Turkish Airlines crash
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Sixty-three people, six of them in a critical condition, remain in hospital Thursday after the crash of a Turkish Airlines plane at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport that killed nine, Dutch officials said. (UPDATED)
Six were in a critical condition, four of whom have not been identified, Weterings said.
Weterings said the nationalities of most of the 127 passengers and seven crew on board the ill-fated Boeing 737-800 flight had been established.
The group included 53 Dutch and 51 Turkish citizens, a German, seven Americans, three Britons, one Bulgarian, a Finnish, Italian and a Taiwanese citizen. Four of the Americans were Boeing employees. The nationalities of fifteen, including six of the dead, have yet to be determined.
"The identities of the deceased will only be released once the next-of-kin have been informed," Weterings said.
Three of the crew, all Turkish citizens, were among the nine dead.
Seven of the survivors arrived in Istanbul's Ataturk Airport. Five others are expected to be in Turkey on Thursday evening.
Flight TK-1951 from
Despite the catastrophic impact, the wreckage did not burn and a good number of people walked away with only minor injuries.
INVESTIGATIONS CONTINUE
Investigators took detailed photos of the wreckage of the Turkish Airlines Boeing 737 and analyzed black box recordings Thursday, trying to piece together why the plane lost speed and crashed into a muddy field.
Fred Sanders, spokesman for the Dutch Safety Authority, told AP the flight’s data recorders and voice tapes have been sent to
Investigators plan to interview crew members, passengers and witnesses and will explore a number of possible causes, including insufficient fuel, weather-related factors or bird strikes. Sanders said a preliminary result may be made public soon, although the full report would take months to compile.
A team of Turkish experts left for the
"I would like to commemorate the pilot, who at the cost of his own life, ensured that human casualties were low," Yildirim said.
Turkish Airlines had a troublesome safety record in the 1970s, with 608 lives lost in around two years, but the modern airline's safety record has improved and Wednesday's crash was its second fatal incident this decade, according to the Flight Safety Foundation.
An Turkish Airlines advertising department employee said the promotional campaign was suspended in the wake of the fatal plane crash