Atlasjet flight 4203
| Atlasjet flight 4203 | |
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 The plane that crashed in August 2007 at Warsaw Chopin Airport |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Controlled flight into terrain |
| place | near Keçiborlu , Turkey |
| date | November 30, 2007 |
| Fatalities | 57 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Injured | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | McDonnell Douglas MD-83 |
| operator | AtlasGlobal (then still Atlasjet) |
| Mark | TC-AKM |
| Departure airport | Ataturk Airport , Istanbul , Turkey |
| Destination airport | Suleyman Demirel Airport , Isparta , Turkey |
| Passengers | 50 |
| crew | 7th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
Atlasjet flight 4203 was a scheduled domestic flight operated by the Turkish airline Atlasjet (now AtlasGlobal ) from Istanbul's Ataturk Airport to Suleyman Demirel Airport in Isparta . The plane crashed outside the city of Keçiborlu on November 30, 2007 , at around 1:36 a.m. EET (11:36 p.m. UTC on November 29). The plane took off in Istanbul at 12:50 a.m. local time for the approximately 370-kilometer domestic flight with 57 people on board, including a six-week-old baby who was not originally included in the flight manifest, which initially led to different reports about the number of victims . Atlasjet's managing director, Tuncay Doğaner, told the press that none of the people on board survived the crash.
The aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 that Atlasjet had leased from World Focus Airlines . The onboard crew who were flying the plane at the time of the crash came from World Focus Airlines.
The nuclear physicist Engin Arık and five other scientists were on board the aircraft on their way to a physicist conference in Isparta.
Crash site
The crash site was in impassable terrain, about 12 kilometers from Isparta Airport. The wreckage of the plane broke in two. The wings and both engines of the machine were on the top of a mountain, while the fuselage of the machine came to lie about 150 meters lower. Luggage and debris were widely spread. Many victims were thrown from the plane, sometimes with the seats they were buckled in. According to the first reports, the crash site was not on the normal flight route and also not on the approach line to the planned landing site. "I don't understand how she got there," said the governor of Isparta province .
Investigations
The investigative authorities recovered the two flight recorders (flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder) the day after the crash . The weather conditions were good at the time of the crash and the visibility was 12 kilometers. The accident occurred shortly after the pilots had announced that they would be preparing to land. A VOR approach to runway 05 should be flown. From a distance of 12NM from IPT VOR, this would have required a course of 043 degrees in the direction of the airport. However, the actual course flown was 073 degrees and thus led directly to the summit of Mount Türbetepe. The plane crashed on this. The ground proximity warning system (EGPWS), which should have warned the crew acoustically and visually, was defective. It had already failed on several previous flights (on 86 of the last 235 flights). Both the captain and the co-pilot are said to have been inexperienced. The simulator training for the master's type rating was only 20 hours instead of the planned 32 hours. The co-pilot is said to have acquired his type rating over 32 hours in Sofia. However, there is no documentation on this. It was the first time that both flew to Isparta airport. The plane crashed without an emergency call being made. According to the airline Atlasjet, there were no technical problems with the aircraft with the aircraft registration TC-AKM and the serial number 53185/2090. The aircraft had entered service in 1994 and was equipped with two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-219 engines. After the aircraft belonged to Reno Air until 1999 and was then operated by American Airlines , Freebird Airlines acquired the aircraft in 2001 . In 2005 World Focus Airways became the owner of the aircraft, which first leased it to Turkish Airlines and then to Atlasjet.
conspiracy theories
Five Turkish nuclear physicists who were on their way to a working meeting of the Turkish particle accelerator project of the Süleyman Demirel Universitesi were killed in the accident . This led to numerous conspiracy theories in the Turkish press. Serkan Gölge ( Zaman ), the newspapers Millî Gazete , Anadolu'da Vakit and Serdar Turgut ( Akşam ) spread theories that foreign forces wanted to fail an important technology project in Turkey and therefore caused the plane to crash. This conspiracy theory was fueled by the fact that the physicist Bilge Demiröz, who also worked on the project, was seriously injured in an accident about a month later. This was reinterpreted as an attack.
Individual evidence
- ^ Passenger aircraft crashes in Turkey. FlightGlobal , November 30, 2007, accessed November 30, 2007 .
- ↑ a b Accident description (preliminary). Air Safety Network, accessed November 30, 2007 .
- ^ Physics expert, baby among plane dead. CNN , accessed November 30, 2007 .
- ^ 'None survive' Turkey plane crash. BBC News , November 30, 2007, accessed November 11, 2010 .
- ↑ a b Plane crashes; no survivors found. CNN , November 30, 2007, accessed November 11, 2010 .
- ↑ Düşen uçakla ilgili kuşku dolu soru işareti ... Milliyet , November 30, 2007, accessed on November 11, 2010 (Turkish).
- ↑ a b 57 dead in a mysterious plane crash in Turkey. AFP via Google News , November 30, 2007, archived from the original on December 2, 2007 ; Retrieved November 11, 2010 .
- ^ Hunt for clues in Turkish crash. BBC News , November 30, 2007, accessed November 11, 2010 .
- ↑ Airfleets.net database entry . Retrieved December 3, 2007.
- ↑ Rifat N. Bali: Komplo Teorileri: Cehaletin ve Antisemitizmin ReSM i Geçidi. Istanbul 2016, p. 163f.
Web links
Coordinates: 37 ° 51 ′ 19.4 " N , 30 ° 22 ′ 6.2" E