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Date: | Sunday 19 September 1976 |
Time: | 23:15 |
Type: | Boeing 727-2F2 |
Owner/operator: | Türk Hava Yollari - THY |
Registration: | TC-JBH |
MSN: | 20982/1087 |
Year of manufacture: | 1974 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 154 / Occupants: 154 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Isparta -
Turkey
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Istanbul-Yesilköy Airport (IST/LTBA) |
Destination airport: | Antalya Airport (AYT/LTAI) |
Narrative:THY Flight TK452, a Boeing 727-200, was destroyed when it impacted a hillside near Isparta, Turkey. All 154 occupants were killed.
The aircraft had departed Istanbul-Yesilköy Airport, Turkey at 22:45 hours on a VFR flight to Antalya Airport.
After passing the Afyon VOR, located 210 km north of Antalya, the flight crew requested a descent from FL250 to FL130.
At 23:11 hours, the crew reported seeing Antalya city lights with the 4000 m long boulevard and requested a direct runway 36 approach. Descent was continued until the aircraft impacted a hillside at 3700 ft (1130 m), near the city of Isparta, located 100 km north of the destination. It appeared that the pilot mistook the lights of a highway north of Isparta for the Antalya boulevard.
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photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Frankfurt International Airport (FRA); March 1975
photo (c) Firuz Altingoz collection; unknown; November 1974
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