Turkish Airliner Crashes - BBC,02

Turkish plane crash: witnesses

Passengers and eyewitnesses have been describing what they saw when a Turkish Airlines plane crashed on landing at Amsterdam's Schiphol international airport.

Kerem Uzel, passenger

"We were at an altitude of 600m (2,000 feet) when we heard the announcement that we were landing.

"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."

Tuncer Mutluhan, passenger

"While we were making a normal landing it felt like we fell into a void, the plane lost control, suddenly plunged and crashed.

"It all happened in three or five seconds. There was panic after that."

Thomas Freidhoff, eyewitness

"[The plane] completely lost propulsion or couldn't glide anymore, and you clearly saw it come down several tens of metres and come to a quite sudden stop.

"The plane was nose up and the tail section was at a 45-degree angle. Seconds after the crash people started exiting through the tail section - 15-20 people, all of them, of course, frightened.

"Minutes after that they were climbing back in to get more passengers, who were slightly injured."