AMSTERDAM - Dutch official said that they would make public names of the passengers who lost their lives or were injured during yesterday's crash of a Turkish Airlines (THY) plane in the Netherlands.
Theo Weterings from the crisis desk, which was set up after the THY plane slammed into a muddy field about three kilometers short of the runway at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, said that they identified some of the victims of the crash.
We first notify their families and then make public their names, he said.
Weterings said that 63 passengers had still been in hospitals for medical treatment and six of them were in life-threatening condition. He said that four of the badly injured could not be identified yet.
He said that there were 51 Turkish and 53 Dutch nationals on board the plane, adding that seven Americans, 3 Britons as well as one person each from Germany, Taiwan, Finland,Bulgaria and Italy were among the passengers. Weterings said that the nationalities of 15 passengers still had not been confirmed.
Nine people including three crew members lost their lives when a THY passenger plane bound from Istanbul to Amsterdam slammed into a muddy field while attempting to land at the Schiphol Airport. The Boeing 737-800 broke into three pieces on impact near the Schiphol Airport. The fuselage split in two, close to the cockpit, and the tail broke off.
(UK-AÖ)
(GEN)