Dutch farmer worked all day to help Turkish crash victims

This video is in Dutch, without subtitling. It's posted to show the farmer, Maurits Rip, in whose field the Turkish Airlines' Boeing 737-800 crashed near Amsterdam yesterday. The field was too muddy for emergency vehicles. He was roped in to help out.

Farmer Rip and his tractor spent from 10:45am until 9.30pm, carefully transporting the critically-wounded to nearby helicopters and ambulances parked nearby on a dike road -- and later also took the nine dead crash victims on his farm tractor across the debris-strewn field. The Trip family -- he has two small sons -- live and work right beneath the flight path to one of Schiphol airport's runways near Amsterdam in The Netherlands. see and also see ... an airplane falls in your backyard... The farmer said in this NOS-news (the National Dutch Broadcasting Service) interview that he was just having his morning coffee break after cleaning the farm's agricultural equipment - he'd been plowing to prepare the field for sowing -- when he heard a very loud 'thud' and then saw neighbours rushing past him on their bikes, shouting 'airplane down'. "I stopped working, I mean you can't keep your mind on your business if an airplane comes down in your backyard,' he said. So he grabbed his bike and rushed to the crash scene. He said police immediately asked him if he knew if any farmers could lend their tractors and other farm vehicles because the fields were too muddy and water-logged for helicopters or ambulances. So he spent the entire day helping out, transporting the wounded. "I feel satisfied that I was able to do something. I couldn't just stand here with my hands in my pockets and watch this, all these horrible events,' he said. His sons said they were 'pretty proud' of their dad, and told him they'd also wanted to give him a hand. "However dad said we'd get nightmares and it was best we didn't ." The Trip's large, modern barn also was used for the initial medical triage-stage of the victims before they were transported by ambulances and waiting helicopters, parked on the nearby, narrow dike road. see