Vincent Dekker

Vincent Dekker is a retired Dutch investigative journalist of Dutch national newspaper "Trouw". 
Dekker wrote for newspaper "Trouw" for years about El Al Flight 1862. He discovered that things were wrong in the official investigation of the plane crash. He was opposed and even ridiculed during his research by multiple people and organizations. However, he continued his research on unanswered questions and continued writing about it. Partly because of his works, a parliamentary inquiry was launched in 1998.
El Al Flight 1862 investigation.
On 4 October 1992, an Israeli cargo plane crashed in the Amsterdam Bijlmer: El Al Flight 1862. After the crash many questions remained unanswered. Dekker conducted an extensive investigation into the disaster for many years, together with of "de Volkskrant". For example, unknown men in white suits had been seen at the crash site that no one could identify. The cockpit voice recorder had disappeared without a trace. According to the official report, there were flowers and perfume in the aircraft, but a number of waybills from the cargo on board were missing. And the route that the aircraft had flown according to the radar at Schiphol did not match the route registered in the Flight Data Recorder and from eyewitnesses reports who had seen the plane. In the years after the disaster, many Bijlmer residents became ill. There was social unrest because of this.
In his many scoops for "Trouw", Dekker describes the causes of the disaster on the basis of information released by the government and the civil aviation service. He also wrote the book "GOING DOWN, GOING DOWN" that was published in 1995 in which he describes the causes of the disaster and how a disaster like this could have been prevented. 
During his journalistic investigation, Dekker was opposed by authorities and politicians, there were even suspicions that he was being followed by the Israeli secret service. He was ridiculed and even considered a conspiracy theorist. Later he was labeled as one of the best journalists.
Partly due to his works a into the disaster started in 1998. As a result, a plausible cover-up at government level came to light.
VVOJ.
Dekker is one of the founding members of the (VVOJ) in 2002. A journalists association to stimulate investigative journalism and improve the media climate for investigative journalism.