Amsterdam  - Two employees of the US plane-builder Boeing were among the nine dead in Wednesday's plane crash outside Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, the company confirmed early Friday.

A third employee of the firm, who had been on board the Turkish Boeing 737-800 that crashed on approach to the airport, was injured and remains in hospital, the Seattle-based concern said in a statement.

Boeing is awaiting information from the crash investigation about what caused the accident, which came at the end of the scheduled morning flight from Istanbul when the aircraft came down suddenly short of the airport runway.

The Hague  - Days before the official opening of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, its main court room still looks the way it did when the UN staff took over the building: A gymnasium.

The green sports floor with typical yellow, white and red lining is still there, as is other standard gym equipment.

Amsterdam - Dutch authorities Thursday released the list of nationalities of the passengers on the Turkish Airlines plane that crashed just short of Schiphol Airport the day before.

The Boeing 737-800 was carrying 53 Dutch and 51 Turkish nationals, as well as a number of from such other countries as Italy, Germany and Taiwan, said Theo Wetering, mayor of the Haarlemmermeer municipality, at a press conference at the airport.

The nationality of 15 people was still not known, he said.

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  - At least nine people were killed and more than 80 injured, 31 of them seriously, when a Turkish Airlines plane crashed near Schiphol airport just before landing on Wednesday.

Flight TK 1951 had 134 people on board, comprising 127 passengers and seven crew, and crashed on its approach to the airport at 10.31 am (0931), a press conference at the airport was told.

Three of the dead were the pilot, co-pilot and a trainee pilot of the Boeing 737-800, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed later in Ankara.

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.