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COMMENTS: Short of Schipol
All three newscasts assigned a reporter to the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 in Holland. It plowed into a field and broke into three pieces two miles short of the runway at Schipol Airport: nine were killed including the cockpit crew. CBS' Mark Phillips and ABC's Miguel Marquez were on the scene in Amsterdam; Tom Costello covered the crash remotely from NBC's Washington bureau. Many passengers were able literally to walk away from the wreckage "due to the relatively low impact speed, to the waterlogged field on which the plane landed and to the fact there was no fire," CBS' Phillips pointed out, "leading to speculation the plane may have had some sort of fuel problem." In all, 126 of the 135 on board survived.
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