What the records say
- When
- 8 Jan 2003
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 37.89° N, 40.20° E
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 75
- Injured
- 5
- Cause
- controlled flight into terrain
Turkish Airlines Flight 634
2003 aviation accident
Turkish Airlines Flight 634 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Istanbul Atatürk Airport to Diyarbakır Airport in southeastern Turkey. On 8 January 2003 at 20:19 EET, the aircraft operating the flight, a British Aerospace Avro RJ100, struck the ground on final approach approximately 900 metres (3,000 ft) short of the runway threshold during inclement weather conditions.
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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 “The Turkish Airlines Flight 634 was operated by Avro RJ100 TC-THG, which crashed in extensive fog during its final approach to land”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Türk Hava Yolları'nın 634 sefer sayılı uçuşu: Türk Hava Yolları'nın İstanbul-Diyarbakır seferini yapan RJ-100 tipi uçağı Diyarbakır'a inişi sırasında düştü”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Катастрофа авиалайнера «Avro RJ100» в Диярбакыре”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “アタテュルク国際空港からディヤルバクル空港に向かっていたトルコ航空634便(ブリティッシュ・エアロスペース社製アブロ RJ100)がディヤルバクル空港への着陸進入中に悪天候によって滑走路手前900mに墜落し、乗員乗客80人中75人が死亡した(トルコ航空634便着陸失敗事故)。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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