Coordinates: 52°19′8″N 4°58′30″E / 52.31889°N 4.975°E / 52.31889; 4.975
On 4 October 1992, El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747 cargo plane of the Israeli airline El Al, crashed into the Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer (colloquially "Bijlmer") neighbourhood (part of Amsterdam Zuidoost) of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. For the location in the Bijlmermeer, the crash is known in Dutch as the "Bijlmerramp" ("Bijlmer disaster"). A total of 43 people were killed, including the plane's crew of three, a non-revenue passenger in a jump seat, and 39 people on the ground. Many more were injured. This accident remains the deadliest aviation accident to ever occur on Dutch soil. The disaster was made worse by the fact that the plane exploded and started a large fire after the crash.
Read more about El Al Flight 1862: Fatal Flight, Crash, Causes, Official Victim Count, Health Issues, Cargo, Alterations To Boeing Aircraft, Memorial, Communication Recording Between Ground Control and El AL 1862 Flight Crew
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“In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great stretch of invention to create birds. The hawk which now takes his flight over the top of the wood was at first, perchance, only a leaf which fluttered in its aisles. From rustling leaves she came in the course of ages to the loftier flight and clear carol of the bird.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)