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An Airbus A330, of which Turkish Airlines is the largest operator, at now defunct Istanbul Atatürk Airport, with multiple other Turkish Airlines aircraft in the background. As of September 2024, Turkish Airlines operates a fleet of 373 Airbus and Boeing aircraft. The airline started its operations in 1933 with only five planes.
The aircraft operating Flight 1951 was a 7-year-old Next Generation Boeing 737-800 series model 8F2 [13] with registration TC-JGE, named "Tekirdağ". [14] [15] Model 8F2 denotes the configuration of the 737-800 built for use by Turkish Airlines.
Turkish Airlines was established on 20 May 1933 as Turkish State Airlines (Turkish: Devlet Hava Yolları) [18] as a department of the Ministry of National Defense. [19] The airline's initial fleet consisted of two five-seat Curtiss Kingbirds , two four-seat Junkers F 13s and one ten-seat Tupolev ANT-9 . [ 19 ]
Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (TK981/THY981) was a scheduled flight from Istanbul Yeşilköy Airport to London Heathrow Airport, with an intermediate stop at Orly Airport in Paris. On 3 March 1974, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating the flight crashed into the Ermenonville Forest, 37.76 kilometres (23.46 mi) outside Paris, killing all 335 ...
Airbus A330. The Airbus A330 is a wide-body aircraft developed and produced by Airbus. Airbus began developing larger A300 derivatives in the mid-1970s, giving rise to the A330 twinjet as well as the Airbus A340 quadjet, and launched both designs along with their first orders in June 1987.
Blended Wingtips on a Turkish Airlines owned A321neo. The A321neo is a narrow-body (single aisle) aircraft with a retractable tricycle landing gear, powered by two wing pylon-mounted turbofan engines. It is a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a conventional tail unit having a single vertical stabiliser and rudder. Changes from the A321ceo ...
Turkey’s national carrier, Turkish Airlines, said Friday that it is placing an order for 220 new planes from Airbus as it seeks to expand its fleet. In a statement to Turkey’s public ...
On 8 March 1962, a Fairchild F-27 of Turkish Airlines registered as TC-KOP, crashed into Mount Medetsiz while en route from Ankara Esenboğa Airport (ESB/LTAC) to Adana Airport (ADA/LTAF), killing all eight passengers and three crew members on board. The aircraft was descending into Adana when it encountered cumulus clouds, leading the pilots ...