Funeral held for crew killed in plane crash

Turkish Airlines on Saturday held a funeral service for three pilots and a flight attendant killed when their Boeing 737-800 crashed in a field near Amsterdam airport, shattering into three pieces.

Hundreds gathered outside the airline's Istanbul headquarters where Candan Karlitekin, the head of company's board of directors, paid tribute to pilots Hasan Tahsin Arisan, Olgay Ozgur and Murat Sezer and flight attendant Ulvi Murat Eskin. Karlitekin said that, of the 135 people on board, 126 had survived due to the pilots' skills. (AP