The death of 61 Dutch nationals in Wednesday’s Tripoli plane crash is one of the worst air disasters to hit the Netherlands, the Volkskrant reports.

The highest death toll was recorded in 1977 when two planes collided on the holiday island of Tenerife, killing 583 people including 248 Dutch nationals.
In 1989, 179 people were killed in plane crash in Suriname and in 1958, 99 Dutch nationals died when a plane plunged into the Atlantic ocean near Ireland.
Sixty-one people were also killed in 1961 in a crash near Lisbon.