Turkish Airlines Jet Crashes in Southern Turkey
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Turkish Airlines Jet Crashes in Southern Turkey
Breaking News:
"Rescue officials: Turkish Airlines jet crashes in southern Turkey with 71 people on board. Details to come"
Source: CNN.com
Update 2:32PM EST -- CNN.com
DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY -- An airliner carrying 76 people has crashed in bad weather in southeastern Turkey, CNN Turk reports.
The Turkish Airlines plane, travelling from Istanbul, crashed as it approached the airport in Diyarbakir on Wednesday, rescue officials said.
The weather was reported to be foggy when the accident happened.
It is not known whether there are any casualties, but witnesses report that some people have survived and were taken to hospital.
"We still don't how many are injured or how many are dead," said a spokesman for the national carrier.
Seventy-one passengers and five crew were aboard the Avro RJ100 aircraft which left Istanbul and stopped in Ankara before going on to Diyarbakir.
"Police have emptied the terminal building but there are a lot of yelling and screaming people," Sahin Aykut, a taxi driver at the terminal told Reuters.
Flight 634 was a scheduled flight to Diyarbakir, a major military and civil centre near the Iraqi and Syrian borders, which is home to a large Kurdish population.
"I saw many ambulances rushing toward the tarmac and a new wave of police have come in and they are trying to calm people down," another taxi driver added.
No clear cause for the accident has been revealed.
In May 2001, a military transport plane crashed in southeastern Turkey, killing 34 officers and soldiers from Turkey's elite special forces, The Associated Press reported.
A civilian jetliner crashed in eastern Turkey in 1991, killing 55 people, after the pilot insisted on landing despite a snowstorm that drastically cut visibility.
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe...ash/index.html
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Update 3:23PM EST -- CNN.com
Breaking News:
"Turkish government says 72 dead, five survivors in Turkish airliner crash."
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"Rescue officials: Turkish Airlines jet crashes in southern Turkey with 71 people on board. Details to come"
Source: CNN.com
Update 2:32PM EST -- CNN.com
DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY -- An airliner carrying 76 people has crashed in bad weather in southeastern Turkey, CNN Turk reports.
The Turkish Airlines plane, travelling from Istanbul, crashed as it approached the airport in Diyarbakir on Wednesday, rescue officials said.
The weather was reported to be foggy when the accident happened.
It is not known whether there are any casualties, but witnesses report that some people have survived and were taken to hospital.
"We still don't how many are injured or how many are dead," said a spokesman for the national carrier.
Seventy-one passengers and five crew were aboard the Avro RJ100 aircraft which left Istanbul and stopped in Ankara before going on to Diyarbakir.
"Police have emptied the terminal building but there are a lot of yelling and screaming people," Sahin Aykut, a taxi driver at the terminal told Reuters.
Flight 634 was a scheduled flight to Diyarbakir, a major military and civil centre near the Iraqi and Syrian borders, which is home to a large Kurdish population.
"I saw many ambulances rushing toward the tarmac and a new wave of police have come in and they are trying to calm people down," another taxi driver added.
No clear cause for the accident has been revealed.
In May 2001, a military transport plane crashed in southeastern Turkey, killing 34 officers and soldiers from Turkey's elite special forces, The Associated Press reported.
A civilian jetliner crashed in eastern Turkey in 1991, killing 55 people, after the pilot insisted on landing despite a snowstorm that drastically cut visibility.
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe...ash/index.html
[This message has been edited by chrislacey (edited 01-08-2003).]
Update 3:23PM EST -- CNN.com
Breaking News:
"Turkish government says 72 dead, five survivors in Turkish airliner crash."
[This message has been edited by chrislacey (edited 01-08-2003).]
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5 survivors!
CNN:
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey -- Fog is being blamed for the crash of a Turkish Airlines RJ 100 jet that crashed just short of a runway in southeastern Turkey, killing 75.
CNN's Jane Arraf said among the five survivors, one woman told how when the plane split apart and burst into flames she was thrown from the wreckage and landed in a bale of hay.
"I'll never board a plane again for the rest of my life," passenger Aliye Il told the Anatolian news agency. "I still haven't overcome the shock."
Prime Minister Abdullah Gul, who is to visit the crash scene on Thursday, said the military dismissed sabotage as a cause. "Most probably it was bad weather conditions," he said. Heavy fog has been a problem in the area in recent days and flights from Diyarbakir were cancelled earlier this week.
The plane went down in the military section of the airport in the overwhelmingly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, near the Iraqi border, leaving a pile of twisted metal and scattered luggage across 800 yards (metres).
The RJ 100 was carrying 75 passengers and five crew members on a flight directly from Istanbul to Diyarbakir. It crashed at 8:28 p.m.(1828 GMT), just two minutes before its scheduled landing.
Arraf told of "scenes of intense grief" at the airports at Diyarbakir, a mainly Kurdish area, and in Istabul where relatives gathered to hear news of their loved ones.
Three small children died in the crash, the Anatolia news agency reported. A two-year-old boy who survived and was rushed to a hospital later died, it said.
At least two Britons were believed to be among the dead, the British Foreign Office said. U.S. officials said at least one American was aboard.
The survivors were named as Aliye Il, Celal Toprak, Murat Karamutlu, Abdullah Altindag and Gencel Gunes, all hospitalised with injuries ranging from burns to broken bones.
Regional governor Gokhan Aydiner said of the 80 people aboard, all but five were killed. The injured were taken to Diyarbakir's central hospital and television reports said they were in shock but had no life threatening injuries.
A grief-stricken man is comforted at Diyarbakir Airport after hearing about the plane crash.
There were no reports of injuries among people on the ground.
Hospital mortuaries in the city were filled with the charred remains of victims and a sports centre had to be used to house some of the dead. Relatives visited the sports centre trying to see if family members were among the dead.
CNN's Arraf reported that Transport Minister Binali Yildirim said there was heavy fog at the time of the crash at Diyarbakir airport, he said the precise cause would not be known until the plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorders were recovered.
The four-engine British Aerospace RJ 100 jet, commonly used for internal flights in Turkey, struck the ground 40 yards short of the runway.
Turkish Airlines has suffered a number of crashes over the years. Its most recent crash was April 1999 when a Boeing 737, empty but for six crew members, went down in southern Turkey, killing everyone inside. Another crash in southeastern Turkey in 1994 killed 57 people when the plane hit a hill during its fourth attempt to land.
The airline's worst accident occurred in March 1974, when all 346 people aboard a DC-10 were killed in one of aviation's deadliest crashes ever. In that accident, the Turkish Airlines plane experienced sudden decompression shortly after takeoff in Paris and then slammed into a park in Ermenonville, France. An unsecured cargo door was blamed.
CNN:
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey -- Fog is being blamed for the crash of a Turkish Airlines RJ 100 jet that crashed just short of a runway in southeastern Turkey, killing 75.
CNN's Jane Arraf said among the five survivors, one woman told how when the plane split apart and burst into flames she was thrown from the wreckage and landed in a bale of hay.
"I'll never board a plane again for the rest of my life," passenger Aliye Il told the Anatolian news agency. "I still haven't overcome the shock."
Prime Minister Abdullah Gul, who is to visit the crash scene on Thursday, said the military dismissed sabotage as a cause. "Most probably it was bad weather conditions," he said. Heavy fog has been a problem in the area in recent days and flights from Diyarbakir were cancelled earlier this week.
The plane went down in the military section of the airport in the overwhelmingly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, near the Iraqi border, leaving a pile of twisted metal and scattered luggage across 800 yards (metres).
The RJ 100 was carrying 75 passengers and five crew members on a flight directly from Istanbul to Diyarbakir. It crashed at 8:28 p.m.(1828 GMT), just two minutes before its scheduled landing.
Arraf told of "scenes of intense grief" at the airports at Diyarbakir, a mainly Kurdish area, and in Istabul where relatives gathered to hear news of their loved ones.
Three small children died in the crash, the Anatolia news agency reported. A two-year-old boy who survived and was rushed to a hospital later died, it said.
At least two Britons were believed to be among the dead, the British Foreign Office said. U.S. officials said at least one American was aboard.
The survivors were named as Aliye Il, Celal Toprak, Murat Karamutlu, Abdullah Altindag and Gencel Gunes, all hospitalised with injuries ranging from burns to broken bones.
Regional governor Gokhan Aydiner said of the 80 people aboard, all but five were killed. The injured were taken to Diyarbakir's central hospital and television reports said they were in shock but had no life threatening injuries.
A grief-stricken man is comforted at Diyarbakir Airport after hearing about the plane crash.
There were no reports of injuries among people on the ground.
Hospital mortuaries in the city were filled with the charred remains of victims and a sports centre had to be used to house some of the dead. Relatives visited the sports centre trying to see if family members were among the dead.
CNN's Arraf reported that Transport Minister Binali Yildirim said there was heavy fog at the time of the crash at Diyarbakir airport, he said the precise cause would not be known until the plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorders were recovered.
The four-engine British Aerospace RJ 100 jet, commonly used for internal flights in Turkey, struck the ground 40 yards short of the runway.
Turkish Airlines has suffered a number of crashes over the years. Its most recent crash was April 1999 when a Boeing 737, empty but for six crew members, went down in southern Turkey, killing everyone inside. Another crash in southeastern Turkey in 1994 killed 57 people when the plane hit a hill during its fourth attempt to land.
The airline's worst accident occurred in March 1974, when all 346 people aboard a DC-10 were killed in one of aviation's deadliest crashes ever. In that accident, the Turkish Airlines plane experienced sudden decompression shortly after takeoff in Paris and then slammed into a park in Ermenonville, France. An unsecured cargo door was blamed.
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