Amsterdam - Turkish Airlines will be flying the bodies of the five passengers who died in a plane crash on Wednesday near Amsterdam back to Turkey, an airline spokesman said Friday.

The transfer of the bodies may possibly take place on Saturday.

Three of the five Turkish nationals who died in Wednesday's crash were crew members.

Amsterdam - Speculation about the cause of the Turkish Airlines crash near Schiphol Airport that left 9 people dead and 86 injured on Wednesday, continued Thursday while investigators were still studying the accident.

Thirty of the injured remained hospitalized, with six people still in critical condition.

Information about the passenger list was not yet released to the media.

Schiphol Airport's disaster team spokesman said "discrepancies" between the lists provided by the airline and the list drafted by Dutch authorities had not yet been resolved.

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.

Amsterdam, Feb 25 : A Turkish Airlines plane has crashed on landing at Amsterdam''''s Schiphol International Airport.

Airport officials said that the 737-800 aircraft, carrying 135 passengers on board, came down on farmland while on its approach to runway 18Left 36Right, and broke into three parts.

A survivor has claimed on a TV channel that at least one person has been killed and twenty injured. Reports added that at least 50 passengers escaped unhurt.

About twenty ambulances and fire engines have rushed to the site.

Amsterdam - Dutch electronics manufacturer Philips is taking over led-light producer Italian Ilti Luce, the Dutch company announced on Tuesday, without releasing financial details.

Amsterdam  - Dutch satellite-navigation-device manufacturer TomTom suffered a loss of 989 million euros (1.265 billion dollars) in the fourth quarter of 2008, the company announced on Tuesday.

TomTom had to write off more than 1 billion euros on the value of electronic mapmaker Tele Atlas, which it took over last year for 2.9 billion euros.

Reduced prices of TomTom's navigation products also contributed to the loss.

TomTom sold 44 million navigation systems in the fourth quarter of 2008, an increase of 4 per cent compared with the same period last year.

However, with sales prices for units being up to 100 euros lower than last year, total turnover dropped 17 per cent to 528 million euros in the fourth quarter.