Montreal Gazette

JETLINER TEETERS ABOVE BLACK SEA AFTER SLIDING OFF RUNWAY

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A Turkish passenger plane veered off the runway and dived nose-down into the side of a cliff, where it landed on its belly, a few perilous metres from the Black Sea. The Pegasus Airlines aircraft landed Saturday evening at Trabzon Airport in northeaste­rn Turkey. Authoritie­s have not said what caused the plane to skid off the runway. The plane’s 162 passengers, two pilots and four cabin-crew members all got out of the aircraft safely, Pegasus Airlines said. The flight was en route from Ankara, the Turkish capital. The plane skidded after it landed on the single runway. Passenger Fatma Gordu told the paper that she heard a loud noise after the plane landed and that the aircraft started “shaking.” She said the plane swung to its side and its front tilted downward as passengers screamed. Gordu said passengers waited about 20 minutes for help and were later told to leave the plane through the back exit.

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