Turkish Airlines Flight 158
| Turkish Airlines Flight 158 | |
|---|---|
 Boeing 727-2F2 of Turkish Airlines, symbol photo |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Landing in front of the runway in bad weather |
| place | Ankara airport |
| date | January 16, 1983 |
| Fatalities | 47 |
| Survivors | 20th |
| Injured | 20th |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 727-2F2 |
| operator | Türk Hava Yollari (THY) |
| Mark | TC-JBR |
| Surname | Afyon |
| Passengers | 60 |
| crew | 7th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
Turkish Airlines flight 158 was a scheduled flight from the Istanbul-Yeşilköy airport (from 1985 Ataturk airport ) in Istanbul to Ankara, operated by the company still operated under the name Türk Hava Yollari (THY) . On January 16, 1983, the Boeing 727-200 had an accident while approaching Ankara Airport , killing 47 passengers.
Flight history
The Boeing landed in Ankara at about 10:30 p.m. local time in a snowstorm 50 meters from the runway and caught fire. 47 passengers were killed. 13 passengers and the 7 crew members survived the accident.
plane
The aircraft carried the aircraft registration TC-JBR and was named Afyon . It was a Boeing 727-2F2 (Boeing 727-200 with the Boeing code F2 for Turkish Airlines).
Web links
- Accident report B-727-200 TC-JBR , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 6, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the sequence of events "Weather conditions were problematic", aviation-safety.net, March 27, 2015