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T. 1959 Gatwick Turkish Airlines Viscount crash. 1972 Adana Turkish Airlines DC-9 crash. 1962 Taurus Mountains Turkish Airlines F-27 crash. 1979 Ankara Turkish Airlines F28 crash. Categories: Accidents and incidents by airline of Turkey. Turkish Airlines.
The most notorious was the 1974 crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 981, when an aircraft design flaw led to a faulty cargo door breaking off in flight near Ermenonville, France, resulting in the deaths of 346 people. At the time of the accident, THY981 was the worst plane crash of all time.
On 18 December 2022, Hawaiian Airlines Flight 35, an Airbus A330-243 registered as N393HA, encountered severe turbulence when descending into Honolulu Airport. There were 36 reported injuries with 11 of them serious. [30] The aircraft made a safe landing at 10:46 local time where it was met with emergency personnel.
The deliberate crashes of the aforementioned American Airlines Flight 11, as well as United Airlines Flight 175 at the World Trade Center, and the subsequent collapse of both towers on 11 September 2001 caused 2,606 ground fatalities in addition to the deaths of the 157 people on board both flights, making it the deadliest aviation disaster in ...
December 29, 1994 – Turkish Airlines Flight 278, using a 737-400 registration TC-JES, en route from Esenboğa International Airport in Ankara, Turkey, crashed while attempting to land at Van Ferit Melen Airport in eastern Turkey. Five of the seven crew and 52 of the 69 passengers lost their lives, while the other two crew members and 17 ...
JACDEC Airline Safety Ranking. Since 2002, JACDEC has published an annual ranking of the "Safest 60 Airlines". The index rating, JACDEC distinguishes whether an event is a total loss or a serious incident: Both will be recorded in the JACDEC Database, but in the final weighting, a total loss counts considerably more.
Record summer air travel demand isn’t translating to record U.S. airline profits. Carriers will have to answer for that disconnect when they report quarterly results this month. Some airlines ...
Olgay Özgür (age 28) was the safety pilot of the flight, a graduate of a flight school in Ankara, who flew the MD-80 for World Focus Airlines before joining Turkish Airlines and passing the 737 type rating in 2006; he was sitting in the cockpit's center jump seat. Murat Sezer (42), co-pilot under line training, was flying as co-pilot. [21]