El Al Flight 1862

At 4 October 1992, a Boeing 747 crashed into a block of flats in the Amsterdam quarter Bijlmer, the Netherlands. The total number of casualties was 43, including the 5 crew members on the plane, while some more people were injured.

The plane, a Boeing 747-F freightplane of the Israel company El Al departed from the Dutch national airport Schiphol at 18:10. Above the Gooimeer, the plane lost two engines from 1 wing; the first engine's suspension bolt broke, taking the second engine with it. The crew was unaware of the exact impact of this, being unable to see the wing. After flying some time on only two engines, the plane attempted to land again at the airport. During landing, the plane became out of control, and at 18:34, it crashed into the block of flats called Groeneveen. The building caught fire and collapsed completely at the point of impact.

The number of casualties was relatively low (immediately afterwards, the number was estimated at 200), as few people were at home at the time and the plane was a freighter. However, some estimate that the number is higher, as quite a number of illegal residents lived in the building.

After the disaster, there were rumours that the Israeli secret services, "men in white suits", had tried to recover some of the cargo. The plane did carry about 400 kg of depleted uranium as a counter weight, a fact unknown at the time of the disaster.

A parliamentary inquiry was held to solve the mysteries surrounding this disaster, which did not succeed.