Pilot dies after small plane crashes in Netherlands

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By AFP

31 July 2024 | 12:53 pm

A small plane crashed Wednesday on a highway in the Netherlands, killing the pilot and scattering debris across the double-lane road, Dutch emergency services said. The accident happened around 12:45 pm (1045 GMT) near the southern city of Breda, around 60 kilometres (38 miles) south of Rotterdam. "A plane crashed on the A58 from Breda…

A small plane crashed Wednesday on a highway in the Netherlands, killing the pilot and scattering debris across the double-lane road, Dutch emergency services said.

The accident happened around 12:45 pm (1045 GMT) near the southern city of Breda, around 60 kilometres (38 miles) south of Rotterdam.

“A plane crashed on the A58 from Breda in the direction of Roosendaal,” the Middle-West Brabant Safety Region said on its website.

“Unfortunately, the pilot, the only person on board, died,” it said, without disclosing the type of plane.

Images posted on X showing a burned-out wreck and debris on the highway, where traffic had been blocked off by emergency services from both sides.

One of the worst aviation accidents in recent times happened in the Netherlands in 2009, when a Turkish Airlines passenger jet crashed on approach to Schiphol airport.

Nine people were killed and more than 80 injured in the crash, which investigators at the time said was caused by a faulty altimeter.

In 1992, 43 people were killed when an Israeli El Al Boeing 747 smashed into a block of flats in Amsterdam’s Bijlmermeer neighbourhood shortly after take-off from Schiphol.

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