El Al Flight 1862 Crash 4 October 1992

Crash Site: Amsterdam-Zuidoost, Netherlands

At 6:35:42 p.m. local time, the aircraft nose-dived from the sky and crashed into two high-rise apartment complexes in the Bijlmermeer neighbourhood of Amsterdam, at the corner of a building where the Groeneveen complex met the Klein-Kruitberg complex. It exploded in a fireball, which caused the building to partially collapse inward, destroying dozens of apartments. The cockpit came to rest east of the building, between the building and the viaduct of Amsterdam Metro Line 53; the tail broke off and was blown back by the force of the explosion.

During the last moments of the flight, the ATCs made several desperate attempts to contact the aircraft. The Schiphol arrival controllers work from a closed building at Schiphol-East, not from the control tower. At 6:35:45 p.m., the control tower reported to the arrival controllers: "Het is gebeurd" (literally "It has happened", but colloquially "It is over"). At that moment a large smoke plume emanating from the crash scene was visible from the control tower. The aircraft had disappeared from arrival control radar. The arrival controllers reported that the aircraft had last been located 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi; 0.81 nmi) west of Weesp, and emergency personnel were sent immediately.

At the time of the crash, two police officers were in Bijlmermeer checking on a burglary report. They saw the aircraft plummet and immediately sounded an alarm. The first fire trucks and rescue services arrived within a few minutes of the crash. Nearby hospitals were advised to prepare for hundreds of casualties. The complex was partly inhabited by immigrants from Suriname and Aruba, both former Dutch colonies, and the death toll was difficult to estimate in the hours after the crash.

[treinspotterdelft]

i live in this country and every year on october 4th we memorize this crash and the victims of the crash

[ironmasky]

This makes me cry becuase of the song and the crash😭😭😭😭😭

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0:04 EL AL Flight 1862 takes off from Amsterdam Schiphol for Tel Aviv International Airport in Israel
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0:19 EL AL Flight 1862 Crashes in Zuidoost Netherlands killing all 3 pilots and one Passenger and others in the building
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EL AL Flight 1862 was a Scheduled Flight from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport For Tel Aviv In Israel just after Takeoff the plane lost 2 of its engines on the right wing and made a right turn while the pilots tried to get control of the aircraft and tried to get back to Schiphol while the aircraft was on final approach the pilots requested flaps one and the aircraft descended towards the building and crashed into the building
At 6:34:42 PM Flight 1862 crashed in Amsterdam Zuidoost Netherlands killing all 3 pilots and several people inside the Apartment Complex the aircraft a Boeing 747-258F was involved in the accident there was one Passenger on the Cargo Plane the registration was 4X-AXG
Earlier at 2:40 pm the plane arrived in Schiphol for a crew change
Flight 1862 was scheduled to depart at 5:30 pm but it was delayed until 6:20 am at 6:22 am the aircraft made a north-northwest turn
At 6:27 am witnesses reported hearing a sharp bang above them above the Gooimeer Near Amsterdam the plane's two engines fell into the water and a Police Officer thought that they were initially parachutists but upon closer inspection found out that it was plane engines at 6:28:45 am the first officer made a mayday call to atc reporting that they lost engines 3 and 4 and wanted to return to Schiphol as fast as possible unbeknownst to the pilots and atc the two engines had actually been torn off the aircraft and one wrong move will cause a crash the aircraft was still too high to land on Runway 06 and so the pilots asked for the flaps to be set to one which caused the aircraft to descend towards the building in Zuidoost Netherlands and crashed into the building at 6:34:42 pm
Edit:oh my god this comment is so cringe