AMSTERDAM — Engine trouble might have caused the Turkish Airlines crash that killed nine people in the Netherlands, the head of the agency investigating the accident said Thursday. Separately, officials said those killed were five Turks and four Americans.
Flight TK1951 from Istanbul crashed about a mile short of the runway at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on Wednesday morning, smashing into three pieces. It was carrying 135 passengers and crew.
Chief investigator Pieter van Vollenhoven told reporters that the Boeing 737-800 had fallen almost directly from the sky, which pointed toward the plane’s engines having stopped.
On Thursday, Seattle-based Boeing said the U.S. State Department had confirmed that two of its four employees aboard were among the fatalities, and a third was injured.
