Amsterdam  - The Turkish Airlines plane that crashed near Schiphol airport on Wednesday, leaving nine dead and more than 50 injured, was the sixth major air crash in the Netherlands in the last 30 years.

On September 25, 1996, 32 people died when a Dakota DC3 PH-DDA from Schiphol crashed in the sea near Den Helder.

Just three months earlier, on July 15, 1996, a Lockheed C130 Hercules CH-06 belonging to the Belgian airforce crashed at the military airport at Eindhoven. Thirty-four people died.

On April 4, 1994, three people died when a KLM Cityhopper Saab 340B PH-KSH crashed near Schiphol Airport.

The worst plane disaster in the Netherlands took place on October 4, 1992, when an El Al cargo Boeing 747F 4X-AXG hit a residential high rise block in south Amsterdam's Bijlmer area, resulting in 43 deaths - the majority of them on the ground.

On October 6, 1981, 18 people were killed when an NLM Fokker F28-40000 fellowship PH-CHI crashed near Eindhoven airport. (dpa)