Turkish Airlines BAe 146-300 plane crash
Key facts
- Airline
- Turkish Airlines
- Aircraft
- BAe 146-300
- Location
- Diyarbakir, Turkey
- Date
- 8th January, 2003
- People on board
- 80
- Fatalities
- 75
Accident account
The aircraft was on a scheduled passenger flight from Istanbul to Diyarbakir. Due to the bad weather conditions at the destination airport, it had to perform a non-precision approach. But it crashed short of the runway and broke apart.
Weather around the time of the accident was poor, with fog and mist reported. Only 5 out of the 80 passengers and crew members survived.
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