On 4 October 1992, a 747 cargo plane from the Israeli airline El Al en route   
   from Tel Aviv to New York's JFK Airport made an intermediate stop at Schiphol   
   and after take-off crashed on two flats in the Bijlmer suburb of Amsterdam   
   just after 6.30 pm. The disaster killed at least 43 people.   
       
   The accident is commemorated every year with a ceremony at 'the tree that saw   
   it all', a tree that survived the crash and the subsequent fire.   
      
   --- D'Bridge 3.99 SR33   
    * Origin: AVIATION ECHO HQ (2:292/854)