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| Engine failure may have been a factor in Wednesday's crash of a Turkish Airlines plane at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, the chief investigator says. | Engine failure may have been a factor in Wednesday's crash of a Turkish Airlines plane at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, the chief investigator says. |
| Pieter van Vollenhoven told Dutch state television that the way the aircraft fell directly from the sky suggested that its engines might have stalled. | |
| "If you then lose speed, you then literally fall out of the sky," Mr van Vollenhoven was quoted as saying. | "If you then lose speed, you then literally fall out of the sky," Mr van Vollenhoven was quoted as saying. |
| Nine people were killed when the Boeing 737-800 crashed short of the runway. | Nine people were killed when the Boeing 737-800 crashed short of the runway. |
| Eighty six people were injured and six are still in a critical condition. | Eighty six people were injured and six are still in a critical condition. |
| Mr Van Vollenhoven, chairman of the Dutch Safety Board, said a reason for the apparent engine failure had not yet been established. | |
| Data analysis | |
| The plane, en route from Istanbul, had been carrying 127 passengers and seven crew. | |
| Three of those killed were members of the crew. Dutch officials said most of the passengers on board had been Turkish. | |
| Dutch officials have taken the flight data and voice recorders to Paris, where French authorities are providing technical assistance. | |
| Dutch Safety Board spokeswoman Sandra Groenendal said on Thursday that a reconstruction of the accident would be made using data from the recorders and information gathered at the scene. | |
| "We will know more after the weekend and probably have clues to determine the direction of the investigation," she said. |