What the records say
- When
- 29 Dec 1994
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 38.40° N, 43.23° E
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 57
- Injured
- 19
- Cause
- controlled flight into terrain
Turkish Airlines Flight 278
1994 plane crash in Turkey
Turkish Airlines Flight 278, operated by a Boeing 737-400 registered TC-JES and named Mersin, was a domestic scheduled flight from Ankara Esenboğa Airport to Van Ferit Melen Airport in eastern Turkey that crashed on 29 December 1994 during its final approach to land in driving snow.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Turkish Airlines Flight 278 crashed on approach to Van Ferit Melen Airport killing 57. Nineteen survived the incident”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Türk Hava Yolları'nın 278 sefer sayılı uçuşu, Van Havalimanı'na inişe geçerken”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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