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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) [19] as a department of the Ministry of National Defense. [20] 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 . [ 20 ]
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 ...
This photo shows flight attendants holding a newborn baby who made his entry into the world aboard a Turkish Airlines flight from Conakry to Ouagadougou to Istanbul on April 7, 2017.
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 ...
A Turkish Airlines pilot died after collapsing mid-flight, forcing the Turkish national carrier to make an emergency landing in New York, the airline said Wednesday.
An Airbus A330, of which Turkish Airlines is the second largest operator of the type, at now defunct Istanbul Atatürk Airport, with multiple other Turkish Airlines aircraft in the background. As of January 2025, Turkish Airlines operates a fleet of 373 Airbus and Boeing aircraft. The airline started its operations in 1933 with only five planes.
As of 2023, Turkish Airlines is one of the major airlines of the world, particularly by its number of international passengers with 83.4 million passengers. [3] Operating scheduled services to 122 countries and 304 destinations all around the world. The Turkish airlines flies to more countries than any other airlines in the world. [4]