{"id":20590,"date":"2022-05-16T13:40:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T08:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=20590"},"modified":"2022-05-16T13:41:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T08:11:00","slug":"today-in-aviation-turkish-military-plane-crash-kills-all-34-aboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/16\/today-in-aviation-turkish-military-plane-crash-kills-all-34-aboard\/","title":{"rendered":"TODAY IN AVIATION | Turkish military plane crash kills all 34 aboard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

All 34<\/strong> passengers on board a Turkish military plane died<\/strong> in a crash in the country’s southeast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Casa CN-235 cargo plane crashed <\/strong>in the Malatya province on 16 May 2001, it was carrying members of Turkey’s Special Forces<\/strong> from the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir to the capital of Ankara<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to initial accounts, 37 individuals were murdered, <\/strong>but it was later revealed that three soldiers who were supposed to be onboard did not make it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pilot lost control of the plane at 5,000 metres (17,000 feet) and went into a steep descent, crashing into a field <\/strong>around 650 kilometres (400 miles) southeast of Ankara.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer expressed his deep regret for the “martyrdom<\/strong>” of 34 military soldiers in a statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
CN-235 cargo<\/strong> plane from CasaSimilar to the one that crashed, a Turkish Army CASA CN-235 cargo plane.Witnesses in Malatya reported seeing the jet explode and plummet from the sky in flames. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, farmer Omer Demir was quoted on the NTV television website as saying: <\/p>
“There was no fire aboard<\/strong> the plane. It vertically smashed into an apricot field nearby, causing a large explosion.”<\/p>
The mayor of Akcadag, a village near the jet accident site, Bayram Karaaslan, stated the plane was completely destroyed, with wreckage<\/strong> dispersed over 400 metres (1,200 feet).<\/p>
 “It doesn’t appear to be a plane,” <\/strong>says the observer. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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“We can only collect bodies now,” <\/strong>he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rescue workers have retrieved the bodies of 18 individuals and authorities were still looking for the plane’s black box.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Diyarbakir<\/strong> is the major city in largely Kurdish southeast Turkey, where separatists have fought for autonomy for the past 15 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There has been no evidence that this had anything to do with the jet disaster. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The incident on Wednesday was Turkey’s biggest flying disaster<\/strong> since a Turkish Airlines plane crashed in 1994, killing 57 people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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