The plane that took off from Paris to Tehran on August 3, 1953 broke down in the skies of Fethiye. Captain Raymond Terry managed to land the plane off Fethiye. 32 passengers and 8 crew survived the accident, while 4 passengers died. The wreckage of the plane lying at a depth of 257 meters off Fethiye, was discovered 65 years later with the special investigation of the Turkish Naval Forces. TRT prepared a documentary on the subject.

3 August 1953

Air France 

Lockheed Constellation L749A

It is the first Turkish plane crash. In 1954, the current Turkish Airlines aircraft named ARK crashed in Adana. DC-3 ARK, which took off at 13.40 to go to Ankara from Adana, exploded in the air at Kurttepe on the slopes of the Taurus. . Parts of the plane spread over an area of 15 kilometers. 25 people died in the accident. Remzi Oğuz Arık, a famous archeology professor and politician, was among those who lost their lives. At the same time, Güler Karaduman, the first stewardess we lost in the plane crash, was also on this plane as a crew.

3 April 1954

Turkish Airlines

Douglas DC – 3

The Euro Super Trader IV type G-AGRH aircraft, owned by the British Air Charter company, deviated from its flight route and crashed into Mount Suphan. 12 people died. According to the instruments, it was understood that the plane, which was cruising, deviated from its normal course due to the strong wind and hit the summit of Suphan Mountain in the north. Wind intensity is much higher than predicted; It is stated that a sound determination could not be made regarding the meteorological situation in Muş and the current conditions in Van could not be evaluated well; sub-normal air temperatures distort the values in the altitude measuring device; It has been concluded that aircraft cruise calculations are made out of coordination.

23 April 1959

Air Charter Limited

 Avro Super Trader IV

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) passenger plane, which came to Ankara from Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, crashed near Esenboğa Airport. A total of 42 people died in this accident.

19 January 1960

Scandinavian Airlines

Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle I

Fokker F-27 type Kop plane, which made the Ankara-Adana flight belonging to Turkish Airlines, crashed in the Toroslar. A total of 11 people, 8 passengers and 3 crew members, died.

8 March 1962

Turkish Airlines

Fokker F - 27

Middle East Airlines' Vickers Viscount type passenger plane collided with the Turkish Air Force C-47 Skytrain military passenger plane over Ankara. A total of 17 personnel on both planes and 87 people died at the points where the planes fell.

1 February 1963

Middle East Airlines and Turkish Air Force

Vickers Viscount and C - 47 Skytrain

Turkish Airlines' Douglas DC-3 type aircraft, coded TC-ETI, crashed near Ankara. 3 crew members died.

3 February 1964

Turkish Airlines

Douglas DC - 3 

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, or Andes, plane crash is a plane crash that has a special place in aviation history. On October 13, 1972, a plane carrying 45 people crashed into the Andes and the 16 survivors were rescued only after more than two months on December 23, 1972.

13 October 1972 – 23 December 1972

Uruguayan Air Force

Fairchild FH - 227 – D

Turkish Airlines' F-28 type aircraft crashed 100 meters from the runway during its take-off from Izmir. Four of the five crew members and 62 of the 68 passengers died.

26 January 1974

Turkish Airlines

F - 28

Turkish Airlines' DC-10 type Ankara with flight number 981 crashed in the Ermenonville Forests shortly after taking off from Paris. 346 people, 12 of which were crew, died on the plane, which crashed due to a manufacturing error at the cargo gate.

3 March 1974

Turkish Airlines

DC - 10

The F-28 type "Bursa" plane of Turkish Airlines, which made the Izmir-Istanbul flight, could not land on the runway due to the power cut at Yesilkoy Airport, and the plane, which was on the rise again, crashed into the Marmara Sea. All of the 4 crew and 37 passengers died.

30 January 1975

Turkish Airlines

F - 28

Turkish Airlines' Istanbul-Antalya flight, flight 452, and Antalya, crashed into the Taurus Mountains near Isparta due to a descent error. 154 people, 8 of whom were staff, died.

September 19, 1976

Turkish Airlines

Boeing 727

American Airlines' DC-10-10 aircraft took off from the 32R runway of Chicago O’Hare Airport at 15:04 local time on May 25, 1979. The sky was clear, visibility was 15 miles. When the plane reached the T / O Rotation, which was the speed of shear from the ground, the left engine with the Pylon broke off in one piece about 1 meter from the front edge of the wing, flipped over the wing and fell onto the remaining runway. The plane, which lost one of its three engines, fell off the ground, but on the first climb it first leaned 90 degrees to the left, then the nose straight down and crashed into the nearby empty field. A fire broke out in the crashed plane, and the pieces were scattered in a truck park near the field where they fell. A total of 273 people lost their lives, 2 people were injured, 271 on the plane and 2 on the ground. An old aircraft hangar, many vehicles and 1 caravan vehicle were destroyed.

May 25, 1979

American Airlines

DC 10 - 10

The F-28 type plane, called Trabzon, which made the Samsun-Ankara flight of Turkish Airlines, crashed near Ankara due to turbulence. A total of 39 people died, three of the four crew members and 36 of the 39 passengers.

December 23, 1979

Turkish Airlines

F - 28

Flight 163 of the airline company Saudia; It was to be carried out from Karachi, Pakistan, to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with a connecting flight. The plane arriving at Riyadh International Airport (now Riyadh Air Base) from Pakistan, where it will transfer without any problems, was the Lockheed production L-1011-200 TriStar model. During the transfer, it was pulled aside to fill the fuel tanks. After the refueling process that lasted 2 hours, all passengers, including new ones, were taken back to the cabin, except for the passengers who got off in Riyadh. After the presence of smoke was confirmed, Captain Mohammed Ali Khowyter made the decision to return to Riyadh airport from where they took off. Assistant Pilot Sami Abdullah M. Hasanain reported his landing request to the tower (21.20) via radio. The plane, which started taxiing after a successful landing, left the runway and stopped at a suitable place. However, the plane stopped exactly 2 minutes and 40 seconds after landing (21.39). Firefighters of the airport were stationed at the beginning of the runway. They were planning an emergency evacuation by stopping the plane as soon as possible after landing on the runway. Firefighters followed the taxiing plane with all their might. Pilots reported that they turned off both engines to the tower. When the rescue unit reached the plane, it was noticed that the engines were still running. Due to the running engines, the rescue team could not open the doors of the plane. It was noted that the doors could not be opened because the pressure was not equalized, the majority of the passengers came towards the front of the plane, and the pilots and cabin crew died in their seats. In the Saudia Flight 163 crash, a total of 301 people, 287 of whom were passengers and 14 of whom were flight crew, passed away.

19 August 1980

Saudia Airlines

L - 1011 - 200 TriStar

Turkish Airlines' Paris-Istanbul-Ankara flight, Boeing 727 type "Afyon" aircraft, crashed on the runway due to fog and snowfall during its landing at Ankara Esenboğa Airport. 47 of the 60 passengers died, 22 people were injured.

January 16, 1983

Turkish Airlines

Boeing 727

During Japan Airlines' domestic flight from Tokyo Airport to Osaka Airport on August 12, 1985, a large part of the vertical tail of the Boeing 747SR type aircraft broke off 12 minutes after takeoff. The plane, which could last for another 32 minutes in this way, crashed on Takamagahara Mountain near Ueno, in the Gunma administrative district, about 100 kilometers northwest of Tokyo. While this disaster was the deadliest air accident on Japanese soil, it was the second deadliest in world civil aviation history after the Tenerife Disaster. It is also the deadliest accident involving a single aircraft in the history of world civil aviation. It resulted in the death of a total of 520 people, 15 of which were crew members, and 4 injuries.

12 August 1985

Japan Airlines

Boeing 747 SR - 46 

Pan American Airlines Boeing 747-121, which took off from Frankfurt to Detroit on December 21, 1988, was destroyed by the explosion of a bomb placed on the plane by terrorists. In the incident where all 243 passengers and 16 crew members on the plane were killed, large aircraft fragments crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland, killed 11 people on the ground.

December 21, 1988

Pan American Airlines

Boeing 747 – 121

United Airlines Flight 811 was a regular scheduled airline flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, with stopovers in Honolulu and Auckland. Serving the flight on February 24, 1989, the Boeing 747-122 suffered a cargo door malfunction shortly after leaving Honolulu.

February 24, 1989

United Airlines

Boeing 747 - 122

United Airlines Flight 232 is the number of the flight of Douglas DC-10, which took off from Denver on July 19, 1989, and ended with a landing in Sioux, Iowa. The plane is under the command of Alfred C. Haymes. DC10 with tail number N1819U succeeded in approaching Sioux City Airport as a result of the breakdown of its mid-axis engine number 2 while cruising at an altitude of 37000 feet (11000 meters) and the superior efforts of the pilots who lost their hydraulics. But during the landing on the runway, it shattered by hitting the ground. It resulted in the death of 110 people on the plane carrying 285 passengers. This accident is exemplified by Crew Resource Management in today's pilot trainings.

July 19, 1989

United Airlines

Douglas DC - 10

It is an international passenger flight scheduled to fly from Linate Airport in Milan, Italy, to Zurich Airport in Zurich, Switzerland, which crashed on November 14, 1990. Operated by Alitalia, Douglas DC-9-32 crashed into Weiach's woodlands while approaching Zurich Airport, and all 46 people on board died.

November 14, 1990

Alitalia Airlines

Douglas DC - 9 - 32

Turkish Airlines flight 278, Boeing 737 type "Mersin", crashed into the hill in its fourth landing attempt near the town of Edremit, Van. 5 people out of 7 crew members and 52 people out of 69 passengers died. 2 crew members, 17 passengers, 19 people in total were rescued with injuries.

December 29, 1994

Turkish Airlines

Boeing 737-400

Turkish Airlines' Boeing 737 aircraft, named "Trakya", crashed in Ceyhan nine minutes after takeoff due to bad weather conditions on its way from Adana to Jeddah. His nose was nailed into the field at a speed of 3500 meters, and he was completely buried in the ground by digging a 30 meter diameter and 15 meter deep hole in the field. Six crew members of the plane, which went to Saudi Arabia to pick up the pilgrims, were unavoidable.

April 7, 1999

Turkish Airlines

Boeing 737

A passenger plane crashed near Queens, New York, USA, about 10 kilometers from JFK Airport, reportedly as an Airbus A-300 aircraft owned by American Airlines. It was recorded that the flight number 587 was going from New York to Santa Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. The Pentagon of the US Ministry of Defense announced that there was no trace of a terrorist attack on the fall of the plane, and the officials stated that the plane was thought to be caused by the crashing of the right engine. Stating that it was crashed and four of the houses were destroyed, Guiliani noted that the plane crashed after it was destroyed. 161 bodies were reported in the place where the American Airlines plane crashed in New York.

November 12, 2001

American Airlines

Airbus A - 300

Turkish Airlines' Avro RJ-100 type passenger plane crashed on the runway during its landing in Diyarbakır. 71 of 75 passengers and 4 of 5 crew members died.

January 8, 2003

Turkish Airlines

Avro RJ - 100

Yak-42 type aircraft, belonging to a private airline based in Ukraine, crashed on Pilav Mountain in Maçka district of Trabzon. 62 soldiers and 13 Ukrainian crew members died on the plane carrying Spanish Peacekeepers returning from Afghanistan.

May 26, 2003

A Private Airline Based in Ukraine

Yak - 42

Atlas Jet Flight 4203: Operated by Atlas Jet, which took off at 00:51 to make the Istanbul-Isparta flight, but TC-AKM registered MD-83 type passenger plane 4203, which is owned by World Focus Airlines, is preparing for landing. Süleyman Demirel Airport during the final approach. It fell at around 01:36 in Türbetepe Mevkii, at an altitude of 1847 meters, 18 km before. A total of 57 people, including 50 passengers and 7 crew, lost their lives.

30 November 2007

Focus Airlines

MD - 83 

Turkish Airlines' Istanbul-Amsterdam Boeing 737-800 type Tekirdağ plane crashed near Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. 9 people, 3 pilots, died in the accident, and 84 people were injured, 6 of them seriously.

February 25, 2009

Turkish Airlines

Boeing 737 - 800

A320-200, which made a domestic flight from Toronto to Halifax, could not hold on the track after limited visibility due to snowfall. Of the 5 crew members and 133 passengers on the plane that slid 1000 meters on the runway, 23 were injured.

December 28, 2014

AirAsia

Airbus 320 - 216

A320, on a scheduled flight from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, began to lose altitude in French airspace 30 minutes after takeoff and crashed after 10 minutes. Investigating authorities determined that the first pilot deliberately shot down the plane. 144 passengers and 6 crew members died on the plane.

24 March 2015

Germanwings 

Airbus 320 - 211

A320-200, which made a domestic flight from Toronto to Halifax, could not hold on the track after limited visibility due to snowfall. Of the 5 crew members and 133 passengers on the plane that slid 1000 meters on the runway, 23 were injured.

March 29, 2015

Air Canada

Airbus 320 - 200

Sharm al-Sheikh-St. Petersburg flight 9268, shortly after takeoff, crashed in northern Egypt's Sinai Peninsula with 217 passengers and 7 crew members. There were no survivors in the incident undertaken by the terrorist organization DAESH.

Oct. 31, 2015

Metrojet Airlines

Airbus 321

The A321-100, who made an international expedition from Mogadishu to Djibouti, witnessed a terrorist act shortly after takeoff. The plane was damaged due to the bomb detonated by the terrorist in the front of the cabin. On the plane returning to Mogadishu, only the bomber who carried out the action died. 73 passengers and 7 crew members were rescued alive.

February 2, 2016

Daallo Airlines

Aıirbus 321 - 100

CASA CN 235 type military training aircraft crashed in Isparta. Pilot Major Ümit Karamustafa, Air Pilot Captain Ali Şahin Odabaşı and Technician Petty Officer Ömer Kadir Arlı were killed in the accident.

January 17, 2018

Turkish Air Forces

CASA CN 235

In Indonesia, the 737-8 Max aircraft crashed into the sea on October 29, 2018, shortly after taking off from Jakarta to the city of Pangkal Pinang on Sumatra Island. The accident, in which 189 people died, went down in history as the first accident of the Boeing 737-8 Max type aircraft.

October 29, 2018

Lion Airlines

Boeing 737 - 8 Max

Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 type passenger plane also crashed on March 10, 2019 after taking off from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, 157 people on the plane died. Apologizing for those who lost their lives in the accidents, US aircraft manufacturer Boeing updated the Maneuvering Characteristics Reinforcement System (MCAS) software of the 737 Max aircraft. Airline companies around the world stopped the flight of Boeing 737 MAX planes after these accidents.

March 10, 2019

Ethiopian Airlines

 Boeing 737 Max 8

Flying from Zhukovsky to Simferopol, the A321 encountered a flock of birds shortly after takeoff. With both engines damaged, the plane landed in a cornfield about two kilometers from the runway. 7 crew members and 226 passengers on the fire, which did not start, were rescued alive.

August 15, 2019

Ural Airlines 

Airbus 321

Boeing 737-800 type passenger plane belonging to Pegasus Airlines, which carried out the Sharjah-Istanbul flight, could not hold on the runway when landing at Sabiha Gökçen Airport. Passengers of the plane were evacuated at the emergency exit gates in Istanbul, where strong winds were effective. Passengers suffered panic during the incident, but no one was killed or injured in the accident.

January 7, 2020

Pegasus Airlines

Boeing 737 - 800

It is the flight that resulted in the Boeing 737-86J type passenger plane belonging to Pegasus Airlines leaving the runway on February 5, 2020. The plane, which made the Izmir-Istanbul flight and took off from Adnan Menderes Airport, left the runway after landing at Sabiha Gökçen Airport, three people out of 177 passengers and 6 crew members lost their lives and 174 people were injured. The cockpit and tail of the aircraft were separated from the main fuselage and the aircraft suffered major structural damage.

February 5, 2020

Pegasus Airlines

Boeing 737 - 86J

It was a scheduled domestic flight from Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore to Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. On May 22, 2020, Airbus A320 aircraft crashed into Model Colony, a densely populated residential area of Karachi, with a few kilometers on the runway on the final approach to Jinnah Airport. There were 91 passengers and 8 crew members on the plane. As a result of the accident, 97 people died, 2 people survived.

22 May 2020

Pakistan International Airlines 

Airbus 320 - 214

The plane carrying the Indians stranded in Dubai due to the epidemic went off the runway and split into two during its landing at Calicut Airport. In the statement made by Indian Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep S. Puri, it was noted that the plane crossed the runway in rainy conditions and fell off the slope and split into two at the time of impact. 18 people died in the accident.

7 August 2020

Air India Express Airlines

Boeing 737