Amsterdam - Dutch authorities Thursday released the list of nationalities of the passengers on the Turkish Airlines plane that crashed just short of Schiphol Airport the day before.

The Boeing 737-800 was carrying 53 Dutch and 51 Turkish nationals, as well as a number of from such other countries as Italy, Germany and Taiwan, said Theo Wetering, mayor of the Haarlemmermeer municipality, at a press conference at the airport.

The nationality of 15 people was still not known, he said.

The Boeing 737-800 was carrying a total of 135 people when it crashed just a few hundred metres short of the runway at Schiphol, killing nine persons, comprised of three crew members and six passengers. Six people were critically injured.

Weterings said the identity of three crew members was known, but the identity of six of the other dead was not. The identity of four of the six critically injured is also not known yet, Weterings said.

"We have not yet been able to communicate with four of the six critically injured," Weterings said.

The Haarlemmermeer mayor said the investigation about the causes of the crash was being conducted by the Dutch Safety Board and the Dutch pubic prosecutor. (dpa)