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.

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