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Amsterdam plane crash first reported on Twitter
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by Sanjay Jha | February 25, 2009 at 03:42 am
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The Citizen journalists have once again proved their mettle. The Schiphol Airport crash involving a Turkish airline twas first reported on the micro-blogging website Twitter.
The Boeing 737-800, which originated from Istanbul, Turkey, was trying to land at Schiphol when it crashed at about 1040 local time. Turkish media said the plane was carrying about 135 people.
At this stage it is not known if there are any injuries or fatalities, but pictures from the crash scene show the plane broken in three.
The first report on Twitter reportedly came from @nipp, who posted the message "Airplane crash @ Schiphol Airport Amsterdam!!" at 10:42, only minutes after the crash.
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at 04:28 on February 25th, 2009
Good work.
We should link all the posting on this News event.
at 08:16 on February 25th, 2009
http://www.rtvnh.nl/fotoviewer.asp?newsid=95327&fotoid=32584
The corpses of three crew members are still present in the plane of Turkish Airlines. That was announced on a press conference on schiphol at 16:00.