One person died after a passenger plane skidded off the runway and broke apart while landing at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport, Turkey's Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said Wedneday.
Some 157 people were injured the accident, which appeared to have taken place in poor weather conditions. They have been taken to different hospitals, Koca told a news conference.
He added that two people are currently in an intensive care unit.
The Pegasus Airlines plane was carrying 183 people in total, including 175 adult passengers, two young children, and six crew members, Istanbul's governor Ali Yerlikaya said. The airline has confirmed that one of its planes, flight number PC2193, had skidded off the runway.
Source : https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/05/europe/turkey-plane-intl/index.html
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