Jet had repairs days before crash

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   The Turkish Airlines plane which crashed into a field near Amsterdam's Schiphol airport had had repairs for a system malfunction two days earlier.
   
   The Boeing 737-800 was briefly taken out of operation on Monday after the pilot reported a problem with the Master Caution Light, the airline said.
   
   But Turkish Airlines said the problems should not be seen as a potential cause of the crash, which killed nine people.
   
   On Thursday, investigators said engine failure might have been a factor.
   
   Pieter van Vollenhoven, chairman of the Dutch Safety Board, told Dutch state television that the way the aircraft lost speed and "dropped almost vertically" from the sky suggested that its engines might have stalled.

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