A Turkish Airlines plane crashed on landing at Amsterdam's Schiphol international airport yesterday killing nine people and injuring more than 50.
The plane, with 128 passengers and seven crew, crashed short of the runway near the A9 highway. It broke into three pieces, but did not catch fire.
Witnesses spoke of seeing at least 20 passengers walking from the wreckage of Flight 1951.
Officials said it was unclear why the plane, en route from Istanbul, crashed.
There were conflicting reports initially about the number of dead, but at a press conference at Schiphol a couple of hours after the crash, the airport director confirmed that nine people had died.
The incident happened at 1031 local time (0931 GMT).
Michel Bezuijen, mayor of the Haarlemmermeer municipality under which Schiphol airport falls, said 25 of those hurt were seriously injured.
They included both passengers and crew, he told a news conference.
Candan Karlitekin, head of Turkish Airlines' board of directors, told reporters in Turkey that visibility had been good at the time of landing.
"We have checked the plane's documents and there is no problem concerning maintenance," he is quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
One passenger aboard the plane, Kerem Uzel, told Turkish news channel NTV that the plane's landing had been announced when they were at an altitude of 600m (2,000ft).
"We suddenly descended a great distance as if the plane fell into turbulence. The plane's tail hit the ground... It slid from the side of the motorway into the field."
Schiphol Airport spokesman Rudd Wecer earlier said that the plane came down a couple of hundred metres short of a runway, in normal weather conditions.
Emergency services reached the site quickly, he added.
Television footage showed rescue workers laying out white sheets on what appeared to be bodies.
The injured people were being taken to Spaarne hospital, in Haarlem, close to the airport, while relatives of passengers were assembled in a sports hall at a nearby village.
A witness who was driving past the airport moments after the crash said he saw the plane lying in a field just 60m from the A9 motorway, surrounded by large clouds of brown dust and grey smoke.
"I saw the plane lying there in three pieces," said Nikolai van der Smagt, who works for a telecom company near Schiphol airport.
All flights were suspended, but the airport has since re-opened.
The Boeing 737-800 aircraft left Istanbul's Ataturk Airport at 0822 (0622 GMT).
The last crash involving a Turkish Airlines plane was in 2003 when at least 65 people died in an accident in eastern Turkey.
Schiphol airport has six runways and one major passenger terminal. In 2007, it handled 47 million passengers, ranking fifth in Europe.