Sunday, March 01, 2009

Experts hail Amsterdam crash 'miracle'

"Experts hail Amsterdam crash 'miracle'
Saturday, 28 February 2009
by Martine Pauwels*

Safety experts Thursday hailed the 'miracle' that limited the death toll in the Turkish Airlines jet crash in Amsterdam to five Turks and four Americans as the airline admitted the plane had recently malfunctioned.
'It is a real wreck,' Fred Sanders, a spokesman for the Dutch Safety Board told AFP. 'That so many people were able to walk out was truly remarkable. Some have called it a miracle.'"

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