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Article: 3 BOEING ENGINEERS BELIEVED DEAD IN JET CRASH 4TH CRITICALLY INJURED IN AMSTERDAM.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- February 27, 2009
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Byline: JAMES WALLACE P-I aerospace reporter
It appears that three employees of The Boeing Co. were among those killed in the Turkish Airlines crash in Amsterdam, as they returned from a business trip to Ankara, Turkey. A fourth employee was critically injured.
The four Boeing engineers from Seattle were in Ankara to assist with the modification work on 737 jets that will be used as airborne electronic warfare planes by the Turkish military.
They were returning home on the same kind of plane, a Boeing 737, when it crashed Wednesday about a mile short of a runway at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.
Boeing said Thursday night that two ...