El Al Flight 1862

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On 4 October 1992, El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747-200 cargo aircraft of the Israeli airline El Al, crashed into the Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer (colloquially "Bijlmer") neighbourhood of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The accident is known in Dutch as the Bijlmerramp ("Bijlmer disaster"). The subsequent health effects in survivors, and eventual revelations of the cargo manifest, showed at least three chemical precursors used in the production of the nerve agents sarin and soman. Forty-seven people are known to have been killed, including all 4 on board and 43 on the ground. The exact number killed on the ground is uncertain, as the building housed many unregistered residents. Eleven people were seriously injured and 15 received minor injuries. The accident is the deadliest aviation disaster to have occurred in the Netherlands. In 1998, El Al spokesman Nachman Klieman publicly revealed the aircraft was carrying 190 liters of dimethyl methylphosphonate (DMMP), later...

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