Airplane Accidents Netherlands

A Dutch parliamentary report Thursday on the 1992 crash of an El Al cargo jet in an Amsterdam suburb accused government leaders of gross negligence for failing to protect or inform those exposed to toxic fumes at the crash site.

A Dutch parliamentary report Thursday on the 1992 crash of an El Al cargo jet in an Amsterdam suburb accused government leaders of gross negligence for failing to protect or inform those exposed to toxic fumes at the crash site.

Boeing Discusses Possible Settlement: Airplane manufacturer Boeing Co. said it discussed possible financial settlements with the families of victims killed in the crash of a Boeing 747 air freighter in the Dutch city of Amsterdam. At least 50 people were killed when the Boeing cargo jet flown by El Al, Israel's national airline, crashed into an apartment building Oct. 4.

Israel's El Al airline said it will give Dutch authorities long-sought documents that will clear it of any allegations of a cover-up in the 1992 crash of a cargo plane in Amsterdam. El Al said it has taken possession of most of the documents regarding the plane's 20-ton shipment and will turn them over to a Dutch inquiry at The Hague next week.

Investigators found the charred and dented flight data recorder of the El Al Boeing 747 that slammed into a suburban Amsterdam apartment block on Sunday. The briefcase-sized recorder could provide clues to why the jet crashed. About 40 corpses had been removed from the smoldering rubble, but 250 people were still unaccounted for. The missing were presumed dead.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday ordered that 174 Boeing 747 jumbo jets similar to the one that crashed Sunday in the Netherlands be inspected for possibly defective engine mounts. The order will affect Boeing 747 series 100, 200 and 300 cargo planes flown by American, America West, Continental, Evergreen International, Federal Express, Northwest, Tower, TWA, United, UPS and the now defunct Pan Am airlines, the FAA said. The inspections are to be completed within the next 60 days.

As many as 250 people were feared buried beneath a three-story mountain of smoldering rubble Monday after an Israeli cargo plane slammed into their high-rise apartment complex. Rescuers held virtually no hope of finding any survivors beneath the charred ruins of two buildings sheared through the middle during Sunday's dinner-hour disaster.

A KLM Boeing 747 developed landing gear problems on a flight from Los Angeles and made a successful emergency landing Tuesday, an airline spokesman said.

Israel's El Al airline confirmed Thursday that a Tel Aviv-bound cargo plane that crashed into an Amsterdam apartment block in 1992 carried a chemical that experts say is a key component of nerve gas. Israeli Transport Minister Shaul Yahalom ordered the Civil Aviation Authority to investigate what was in the hold of the plane after the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad reported that it carried chemicals to make nerve gas.

Israel's El Al airline said it will give Dutch authorities long-sought documents that will clear it of any allegations of a cover-up in the 1992 crash of a cargo plane in Amsterdam. El Al said it has taken possession of most of the documents regarding the plane's 20-ton shipment and will turn them over to a Dutch inquiry at The Hague next week.

As sirens wailed and flashing lights swept the fiery wreckage of a 12-story apartment house hit by an Israeli El Al cargo jet in 1992, the "black box" cockpit voice recorder disappeared from the evidence bin where firefighters insist they put it.

Israel's El Al airline confirmed Thursday that a Tel Aviv-bound cargo plane that crashed into an Amsterdam apartment block in 1992 carried a chemical that experts say is a key component of nerve gas. Israeli Transport Minister Shaul Yahalom ordered the Civil Aviation Authority to investigate what was in the hold of the plane after the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad reported that it carried chemicals to make nerve gas.

A vintage plane carrying aviation enthusiasts crashed off the Dutch coast shortly after its pilot reported engine trouble. All 32 people aboard were killed. The plane, a 55-year-old DC-3 Dakota, went down in the Wadden Zee about 35 miles north of Amsterdam, coast guard spokesman Peter Paap said. It was carrying six crew members and 26 passengers--among them members of the Dutch Dakota Assn., which owned the plane.

A Belgian military plane bringing a Dutch army band back from a music festival crashed and burned during landing, killing 32 passengers and crew members. The plane crashed on an airstrip at Eindhoven Airport, about 70 miles southeast of Amsterdam. Nine survivors were hospitalized with serious burns. The cause of the crash was not immediately known.

Computer-aided metallurgical tests may have uncovered some clues to help explain the crashes of two Boeing 747 cargo jets in Amsterdam and in Taiwan, according to a published report. The Washington Post, quoting Federal Aviation Administration officials, said Sunday that Boeing computer simulations found that fuse pins that hold the engines to the wing of the jumbo jet may react under certain conditions in a way that causes them to break long before engineers had anticipated.

Boeing Discusses Possible Settlement: Airplane manufacturer Boeing Co. said it discussed possible financial settlements with the families of victims killed in the crash of a Boeing 747 air freighter in the Dutch city of Amsterdam. At least 50 people were killed when the Boeing cargo jet flown by El Al, Israel's national airline, crashed into an apartment building Oct. 4.

A Belgian military plane bringing a Dutch army band back from a music festival crashed and burned during landing, killing 32 passengers and crew members. The plane crashed on an airstrip at Eindhoven Airport, about 70 miles southeast of Amsterdam. Nine survivors were hospitalized with serious burns. The cause of the crash was not immediately known.

Confusion and frustration prevailed Tuesday as searchers dug through a hideous avalanche of debris for the remains of as many as 250 people missing after an Israeli cargo jet plowed into their high-rise apartments. Efforts to find the two flight recorders of the El Al Boeing 747-200F also proved fruitless for the 300 emergency personnel working around the clock in a cold, constant drizzle.

Officials lowered the death toll in the El Al plane crash to 80 from 120 Saturday after others thought to have been killed called a missing-persons hot line, Dutch authorities said. Search parties recovered sections of the jet engine believed to have triggered the crash last Sunday, the Transport Ministry said. An engine caught fire minutes after takeoff, and the Boeing 747-200 cargo plane smashed into an apartment complex.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday ordered that 174 Boeing 747 jumbo jets similar to the one that crashed Sunday in the Netherlands be inspected for possibly defective engine mounts. The order will affect Boeing 747 series 100, 200 and 300 cargo planes flown by American, America West, Continental, Evergreen International, Federal Express, Northwest, Tower, TWA, United, UPS and the now defunct Pan Am airlines, the FAA said. The inspections are to be completed within the next 60 days.