What happened
On February 25, 2009, at approximately 10:40 am local time, a Boeing 737-800 operated by Turkish Airlines, flight TK 1951, crashed while approaching Schiphol Amsterdam Airport in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The aircraft, registration TC-JGE, was equipped with CFM engines and had originated from Istanbul Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey.
The aircraft impacted terrain approximately 1.8 kilometers (1.1 miles) short of runway 18R. Of the 134 people on board, the accident resulted in 9 fatalities and 80 injuries, consisting of 27 serious and 53 minor injuries.