A small airliner on which the front landing gear jammed has made a dramatic emergency landing in Romania with none of the 51 people aboard injured.
Romanian airline Carpatair praised the skill of the pilots on the flight from Moldova who brought the plane down at Timisoara international airport.
Discovering the fault about 10km (six miles) from the airport, they circled nearly two hours to use up fuel.
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I work at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam.
To day I saw the crashed Turkish Boeing 737.808 laying stricken and broken in a field, just outside Schiphol, wreckage and debris was scattered all over the field amazingly houses and a busy motorway close by where untouched.
Flood lights have been erected all around the wreckage to assist police and officials in their attempt to find a cause for the crash, I counted around 20 news media and television vehicles with satellite dishes and the area was a hive of activity.
Along the edge of the motorway a large fence has been erected to stop drivers being distracted but many motorists where still pulling into the hard shoulder to look through the fence causing danger to other drivers and bringing traffic to a stop.
All through the day as I spoke to crew, technicians and personal our conversation discussed only one topic, the crash!
RUMORS ABOUND!
I heard today during my conversation's some terrible rumors.
The Turkish airplane had only last week, several technical problems and was inspected and repaired twice!
Turkish Airlines has had many problems in the past and are on a secret blacklist of dodgy airlines!
The airline actually undershot the runway and run out of fuel!
The pilots where actually crushed to death in the cockpit and couldn't be removed!
6 of the dead are unrecognisable and at least four of the survivors, one poor Turkish woman is still looking for her husband, passenger 54, 30 hours after the crash!
Shiphol Airport Plane Crash Recordings After The Crash
This plane missed a busy motorway and houses by less than 100 metres
(CNN) -- A Turkish airliner crashed at Amsterdam's main airport about 10:40 a.m. Wednesday local time, Dutch airport officials said.UPDATE CNN
Images from the scene of the Amsterdam crash show the plane broken into three pieces.
"Some passengers are dead, some are injured and some are alive" in the crash, a spokesman from Schiphol airport's press office said over the telephone before hanging up.
Turkish media said the plane was carrying about 135 people.
The Boeing 737-800, which originated from Istanbul, Turkey, was trying to land at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol when it went down.
Airport officials had originally said that the plane was an Airbus 380.
Pictures from the crash site showed the plane split in three parts.
Kieran Daly, of Air Transport Intelligence, said the pictures indicated there had not been a widespread fire.
He said the impact had been severe but it could have been survivable because of the lack of fire.
Daly said their had been vast improvements in the materials used to build airplanes, meaning they did not burn as easily.
De Boeing 737 van Turkish Air. FOTO A. LUGTIGHEID
Turkey plane crashes in Amsterdam A Turkish Airlines plane has crashed on landing at Amsterdam's Schiphol international airport.
The plane, with 135 passengers on board, crashed near the A9 motorway and suffered significant damage.
REPORTS FROM YESTERDAY AS IT HAPPENED
It was Flight 1951 and was a 737-800 aircraft, the airport said.
There were no confirmed reports of casualties. Reuters news agency, quoting Turkish media, said at least 50 people survived unhurt.
Schiphol is the fifth-largest passenger airport in Europe.
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