Pilot dies after small plane crashes on highway in Netherlands

A small plane crashed on a highway in the

Netherlands

on Wednesday, killing the

pilot

and scattering debris across the road. The

accident

occurred at around 12:45pm near Breda, about 60 kilometers south of Rotterdam, Dutch

emergency services

reported. The pilot was the only person on board, and no other injuries were reported.
"A plane crashed on the A58 from Breda in the direction of Roosendaal," the Middle-West Brabant Safety Region stated on its website.

"Unfortunately the pilot, the only person on board, died," it added, without specifying the type of plane involved.
Images posted on social media platform X showed a burned-out wreck and debris strewn across the highway, which emergency services had blocked off from both sides. The wreckage bore the logo of a local aviation flight school, according to local broadcaster Omroep Brabant.
A witness who saw the crash told Omroep Brabant, "I suddenly saw something descend. It was the plane. At the moment it crashed, we saw a ball of fire and that was it."

Emergency services said that the highway would remain closed for the rest of the day as cleanup and investigations continued.
In recent history, one of the worst aviation accidents in the Netherlands occurred in 2009, when a Turkish Airline passenger jet crashed during its approach to Schiphol Airport. 9 people were killed, and more than 8p were injured in that incident, which investigators attributed to a faulty altimeter.
In 1992, an Israeli El Al Boeing 747 crashed into a block of flats in Amsterdam's Bijlmermeer neighborhood shortly after takeoff from Schiphol, resulting in the deaths of 43 people.