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Amsterdam: Nine people were killed and over 50 injured when a Turkish Airways plane broke up on impact as it crash-landed at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Wednesday. The Boeing 737-800 came down in fields around half a kilometre short of the main runway, splitting in two, before coming to rest close to homes.

“At this moment, there is information of nine deaths and 50 injured,” Michel Bezuijen, mayor of the Haarlemmermeer municipality, said. Twenty-five of the wounded were in a serious condition, he added.

Turkish Airlines executive officer Candan Karlitekin said in Istanbul that the victims also included crew members.

Officials in Turkey's transport ministry said around 56 foreigners and 78 Turkish nationals were on board the aircraft which left Istanbul at 8:22 am (6:22 GMT) for Amsterdam. One survivor told Turkish TV that the plane's tail hit the edge of a nearby highway before ploughing into the fields.

“We were at 2000 feet when we heard the announcement that we were landing,” Kerem Uzel told the NTV news channel. “We suddenly descended a great distance as if the plane fell into turbulence. The plane's tail hit the ground ... it slid from the side of the motorway into the field.”

Tuncer Mutluhan, the representative of a private Turkish bank in the Netherlands, said it was a matter of seconds between the realisation that the plane was in trouble and the actual landing.

“While we were making a normal landing, it felt like we fell into a void, the plane lost control, suddenly plunged and crashed,” he told NTV. “It all happened in three or five seconds ... There was panic after that.”