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Dozens dead in Turkish plane crash
DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY (CNN) -- A Turkish Airlines plane came down in thick fog as it approached an airport in southeastern Turkey, killing 72 people, hospital sources say. The Turkish Airlines plane, flight number 634, was carrying 72 passengers and five crew members when the accident happened near Diyarbakir Airport Wednesday. Hospital sources say five survivors are being treated but 72 people were killed in the crash. The Avro RJ100 plane, was travelling from Istanbul, via Ankara, before going on to Diyarbakir. "Police have emptied the terminal building but there are a lot of yelling and screaming people," Sahin Aykut, a taxi driver at the terminal told Reuters. It was a routine scheduled flight to Diyarbakir, a major military centre near the Iraqi and Syrian borders, which is home to a large Kurdish population. "I saw many ambulances rushing toward the tarmac and a new wave of police have come in and they are trying to calm people down," another taxi driver added. No clear cause for the accident has been revealed. In May 2001, a military transport plane crashed in southeastern Turkey, killing 34 officers and soldiers from Turkey's elite special forces, The Associated Press reported. A civilian jetliner crashed in eastern Turkey in 1991, killing 55 people, after the pilot insisted on landing despite a snowstorm that drastically cut visibility.
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