Flights in Amsterdam now to fly over wreckage

Flights were resuming Sunday night on the Amsterdam runway where a Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 was supposed to land before it crashed last Wednesday, killing nine people. The runway at Amsterdam'sSchiphol airport had been closed to all air traffic since the crash, which also injured dozens of passengers.

Planes heading to the airport's Polder runway will now fly low over the wreckage of flight TK1951, which slammed into a muddy field 1.5 kilometres short of the runway and broke into three pieces. The runway is one of five at the airport.

Dutch Safety Authority spokesman Fred Sanders said investigators were still examining the wreckage for clues to the cause of the crash. Possible causes under investigation include turbulence caused by another plane that landed shortly before the crash, weather-related factors, insufficient fuel, loss of fuel, navigational errors, pilot fatigue or bird strikes.

The wreckage is not expected to be removed from the field until Tuesday. Investigators hope to give a preliminary report on the cause of the crash later in the week after completing their analysis of voice and data recordings from the plane's black boxes.

Five Turks and four Americans died in the crash, including three Boeing employees. Asselbergs said 44 survivors were still being treated in 13 different hospitals Sunday and one of them remained in critical condition.

On Saturday, hundreds of mourners gathered outside Turkish Airlines' 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.

Three crew members were buried in Istanbul following funeral prayers at a mosque. The fourth was taken to his hometown of Bursa, in northwestern Turkey. A fifth Turk who died, businessmanBulent Icgoren, had a funeral service Sunday in Istanbul.