At 6:02 pm local time, the transport aircraft crashed at
Eindhoven Airport with a total of 41 people on board: Four Belgian crew members and 37 young members of the Fanfarekorps of the
Royal Netherlands Army. As the aircraft was coming in to land at Eindhoven, it encountered a flock of birds; it overshot the runway, but lost power and crashed into the ground; a fire broke out, which destroyed the cockpit and forward fuselage, killing 32 people on board. The Eindhoven airfield fire service were not initially aware that the transport aircraft was carrying passengers. It was thirty minutes before they realised this, by which time most of the passengers had already died in the post-crash fire. Following the accident, the Royal Netherlands Air Force officer who commanded the Eindhoven airbase, the officer responsible for air traffic control and the officer commanding the fire department were relieved of their duties. ==Investigation==