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March 8, 1996 – A Boeing 727 of Cyprus Turkish Airlines on a flight from Nicosia to Istanbul was hijacked by Ramazan Aydın to Munich, West Germany.; February 24, 1998 – Turkish Airlines aircraft Gaziantep of type RJ 100 bound for Ankara from Adana with 63 passengers and 5 crew on board was hijacked by Mehmet Dağ to Diyarbakır.
Turkish Airlines Flight 1476 (TK1476) [1] was a Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-4Y0 flying from Tirana to Istanbul that was hijacked by Hakan Ekinci in Greek airspace on 3 October 2006. Ekinci demanded to go to Rome to speak with the Pope , but Greek and Italian F-16 Fighting Falcon jets intercepted and escorted the aircraft until it landed in ...
The aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 with serial number 47213/358, registered as TC-JAC and named Marmara after the region of Marmara; its first flight was in 1968. [1] Two days prior to the crash, on 19 January, the plane carried the 13th Prime Minister of Turkey Nihat Erim and a delegation from Ankara to France, and was due to bring ...
Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2806 was a terrorist act carried out by Chechen terrorists from March 15 to March 16, 2001. During the incident, a Tu-154M airliner of Vnukovo Airlines performing flight VKO-2806 from Istanbul to Moscow was hijacked. The hijacked plane landed at Medina airport (Saudi Arabia). The aircraft was freed following a special ...
Turkish Airlines Flight Academy (TAFA) was established by the 28th THY Board on 10 November 2004, and started training with 16 cadets on 1 May 2006. ... The hijacker ...
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. It had 51 aircraft of this model in service at the time of the crash. [16]
The miniseries centers around a well-orchestrated plane hijacking involving six gun-wielding hijackers and one man who brought the guns in from the season premiere. Led by tightly wound hothead ...
One notable incident in 2006 was the hijacking of Turkish Airlines Flight 1476, flying from Tirana to Istanbul, which was seized by a man named Hakan Ekinci. The aircraft, with 107 passengers and 6 crew, made distress calls to air traffic control and the plane was escorted by military aircraft before landing safely at Brindisi , Italy.