What the records say
- When
- 23 Dec 1979
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 40.33° N, 33.16° E
- Description
- aircraft disaster
1979 Ankara Turkish Airlines F28 crash
Air Crash in 1979 including a Turkish F-28
On December 23, 1979, a Turkish Airlines Fokker F28 Fellowship 1000 airliner, registration TC-JAT, named Trabzon, on a domestic passenger flight from Samsun Airport to Esenboğa International Airport in Ankara, flew into the side of a hill 1,400 m (4,600 ft) near the village of Kuyumcuköy in Çubuk district of Ankara Province, 32 km (20 mi) north-northeast of the destination airport on approach to landing.
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