The plane crashed a 10 minutes walk away from my home at the time. The following day I recorded this video.
From wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Al_Flight_1862
more at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYDcvDAgwB8&feature=related
On 4 October 1992, El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747 cargo plane of the Israeli airline El Al, crashed into the Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer (colloquially "Bijlmer") neighbourhood (part of Amsterdam Zuidoost) of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Due to the location in the Bijlmermeer, the crash is known in Dutch as the "Bijlmerramp" ("Bijlmer disaster"). A total of 43 people were killed, consisting of the plane's crew of three and a non-revenue passenger in a jump seat, plus 39 persons on the ground. Many more were injured
On 4 October 1992, the aircraft, a Boeing 747-258F, registration 4X-AXG, was traveling from New York to Tel Aviv and made a stopover at Schiphol. During the flight from New York to Schiphol, three issues were noted: fluctuations in the autopilot speed regulation, problems with the shortwave radio, and fluctuations in the voltage of engine number three.
The jet landed at Schiphol at 2:31 pm local time. New cargo was loaded into the plane; the cargo had been approved by customs authorities, but as was realized later, had not been physically inspected. The aircraft was refueled and the observed issues were repaired, at least provisionally. Captain Yitzhak Fuchs, First Officer Arnon Ohad, and Flight Engineer Gedalya Sofer crewed the aircraft. Anat Solomon, the only passenger on board, was traveling to Tel Aviv to marry an El Al employee. Yitzhak Fuchs was an experienced aviator, having previously flown as a fighter-bomber pilot, flying the De Havilland Mosquito in the late 1950s Israeli Air Force
Flight 1862 was scheduled to depart at 5:30 PM, but the flight was delayed until 6:20 PM. At 6:22 PM, Flight 1862 departed from runway 01L on a northerly heading. Once airborne, the plane turned to the right in order to follow the Pampus departure route, aided by the Pampus VOR/DME navigation station. Soon after the turn, at 6:27 pm, above the Gooimeer, a lake near Amsterdam, a sharp bang was heard while the aircraft was climbing through 6500 feet. Engine number three separated from the right wing of the aircraft, damaged the wing flaps, and struck engine number four, which then also separated from the wing. The two engines fell away from the plane. They attracted the attention of some pleasure boaters who had been startled by the loud noise. The boaters notified the Netherlands Coastguard of two objects they had seen falling from the sky. Captain Fuchs made a mayday call to air traffic control (ATC) and indicated that he wanted to return to Schiphol. At 6:28:45 PM, the captain reported: "El Al 1862, lost number three and number four engine, number three and number four engine."
Route of the fatal flight
ATC did not yet grasp the severity of the situation. In aviation, the word lost as Captain Fuchs used it generally means a loss of engine capacity. ATC therefore believed that two engines had merely stopped functioning, and did not know that they had broken off the wing. It is probable that the crew, too, did not know that the engines had fallen off the aircraft. The outboard engine on the wing of a 747 is visible from the cockpit only with some difficulty, and the inboard engine on the wing is not visible at all. Given the choices that the captain and crew made following the loss of engine power, the Dutch parliamentary inquiry commission that later studied the crash assumed that the crew did not know that both engines had broken away from the right wing.
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patennic 1 month ago
@jememey87 As I said.. they might just as well learn Thai.
AmersfoortTristan 4 months ago
@AmersfoortTristan Come on dude,i was born in Paris but my parents are from Thailand and the Dutch peolple who live there,don't try to learn the language they think speaking English is enough and most of them even got a resort and they need someone to translate some conversations...
jememey87 4 months ago
@jememey87 If they are going to stay there they might just as well learn Thai and learn it thoroughly. If they are tourists then that's that. Because after a while they will leave.
AmersfoortTristan 4 months ago
@AmersfoortTristan It's indeed a problem that people out of Holland speak dutch in Thailand...
jememey87 4 months ago
@geefmijgratisxbox That's indeed a problem, yes.
AmersfoortTristan 4 months ago
it depends with who u talking with
candykidZZ 5 months ago
They speak twi Ghanaian hahaha
candykidZZ 11 months ago