A small aircraft crashed on a freeway within the Netherlands on Wednesday, killing the pilot and scattering particles throughout the highway. The accident occurred at round 12:45pm close to Breda, about 60 kilometers south of Rotterdam, Dutch emergency providers reported. The pilot was the one individual on board, and no different accidents have been reported.
“A aircraft crashed on the A58 from Breda within the route of Roosendaal,” the Center-West Brabant Security Area said on its web site.”Sadly the pilot, the one individual on board, died,” it added, with out specifying the kind of aircraft concerned.
Photos posted on social media platform X confirmed a burned-out wreck and particles strewn throughout the freeway, which emergency providers had blocked off from either side. The wreckage bore the brand of a neighborhood aviation flight faculty, based on native broadcaster Omroep Brabant.
A witness who noticed the crash informed Omroep Brabant, “I out of the blue noticed one thing descend. It was the aircraft. In the intervening time it crashed, we noticed a ball of fireplace and that was it.”
Emergency providers mentioned that the freeway would stay closed for the remainder of the day as cleanup and investigations continued.
In latest historical past, one of many worst aviation accidents within the Netherlands occurred in 2009, when a Turkish Airline passenger jet crashed throughout its method to Schiphol Airport. 9 individuals have been killed, and greater than 8p have been injured in that incident, which investigators attributed to a defective altimeter.
In 1992, an Israeli El Al Boeing 747 crashed right into a block of flats in Amsterdam’s Bijlmermeer neighborhood shortly after takeoff from Schiphol, ensuing within the deaths of 43 individuals.
“A aircraft crashed on the A58 from Breda within the route of Roosendaal,” the Center-West Brabant Security Area said on its web site.”Sadly the pilot, the one individual on board, died,” it added, with out specifying the kind of aircraft concerned.
Photos posted on social media platform X confirmed a burned-out wreck and particles strewn throughout the freeway, which emergency providers had blocked off from either side. The wreckage bore the brand of a neighborhood aviation flight faculty, based on native broadcaster Omroep Brabant.
A witness who noticed the crash informed Omroep Brabant, “I out of the blue noticed one thing descend. It was the aircraft. In the intervening time it crashed, we noticed a ball of fireplace and that was it.”
Emergency providers mentioned that the freeway would stay closed for the remainder of the day as cleanup and investigations continued.
In latest historical past, one of many worst aviation accidents within the Netherlands occurred in 2009, when a Turkish Airline passenger jet crashed throughout its method to Schiphol Airport. 9 individuals have been killed, and greater than 8p have been injured in that incident, which investigators attributed to a defective altimeter.
In 1992, an Israeli El Al Boeing 747 crashed right into a block of flats in Amsterdam’s Bijlmermeer neighborhood shortly after takeoff from Schiphol, ensuing within the deaths of 43 individuals.
