Turkish Plane Crash

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ISTANBUL, Nov. 30 — A Turkish passenger jet crashed in the mountains of western

Turkey early today, killing all 56 people on board, Turkish authorities said.

The plane, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 operated by the airline AtlasJet, took off from

Istanbul and slipped off the radar shortly before it was due to land in Isparta. It crashed

about seven miles from the airport, near the town of Keciborlu, the authorities said.

The cause of the crash remained a mystery. The weather was good, airline officials

said. In another baffling detail, the plane crashed in an area that was not on its

scheduled route.

“The body of the plane is there as a whole, and the wings don’t exist — I have never

seen anything like this,” said Semsettin Uzun, the governor of the province.

An executive from AtlasJet said, “The weather was very good — this seems very suspicious.”

Forty-nine passengers and seven crew members were on board the plane. Among

the passengers were six nuclear physicists on their way to a physics conference.

“The point where the plane crashed is not on the plane’s route,” Mr. Uzun said. “We

don’t understand how it landed there. It has landed on the other side of the ridge.”

Authorities said that at 1:36 a.m., the pilot told the airport tower he saw the airport

runway, and the tower told him to proceed, but that was the plane’s last communication

with the ground.

Videotape of the crash site broadcast on Turkish television showed soldiers with guns

standing around it. By noon, relatives had begun to arrive, and a woman was shown

crying among the wreckage. The black box, which contains details about the crash,

was located.

The Associated Press reported that the bodies of some of the passengers were still

strapped to their seats.

A villager said, “We thought it was an earthquake.”

The plane appears to have come apart in the air, and different pieces had landed in

different places, the authorities said. The Associated Press reported that the plane’s

wings and engine were at the top of a hill while the fuselage was 500 feet lower.

Ismail Macika, mayor of Keciburnu, said in a telephone interview that the plane went

down at the highest point in the area, a peak of 1,830 meters with a watch tower on

top of it.

“Many bodies were taken out of the plane,” he said. “It was easy to get the bodies

because the plane did not break into pieces. I saw a few bodies lying on the ground.”

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“The body of the plane is there as a whole, and the wings don’t exist — I have never

seen anything like this,” said Semsettin Uzun, the governor of the province.

Poachers. They sawed off the wings for sale in the black market. I hear the Chinese like to make stews of them, it's considered an aphrodisiac.

[mawilson 2,133]

Poachers. They sawed off the wings for sale in the black market. I hear the Chinese like to make stews of them, it's considered an aphrodisiac.

Good grief, VJT. Who are you and what have you done with Gupt?

When did you become such a hard-arsed cynical #######? That was my job!

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Poachers. They sawed off the wings for sale in the black market. I hear the Chinese like to make stews of them, it's considered an aphrodisiac.

Good grief, VJT. Who are you and what have you done with Gupt?

When did you become such a hard-arsed cynical #######? That was my job!

I learned from you, oh wise one.

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“The body of the plane is there as a whole, and the wings don’t exist — I have never

seen anything like this,” said Semsettin Uzun, the governor of the province.

Poachers. They sawed off the wings for sale in the black market. I hear the Chinese like to make stews of them, it's considered an aphrodisiac.

[lucyrich 20]

I was in the aerospace industry for awhile, and have always taken an interest in plane crash stories, to try and learn what went wrong and how to avoid it in the future.

Very frequently, initial stories in the first hours or days after the disaster have details that are incomplete or just plain wrong. But on the surface, this accident report doesn't sound any more mysterious than most others (and a lot LESS mysterious than some initial reports, like AA 191 or USAIR 427 for example).

They found the black boxes and wreckage. It'll take time, but they'll be able to piece together the details.

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“The body of the plane is there as a whole, and the wings don’t exist — I have never

seen anything like this,” said Semsettin Uzun, the governor of the province.

Poachers. They sawed off the wings for sale in the black market. I hear the Chinese like to make stews of them, it's considered an aphrodisiac.

rofl

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Forty-nine passengers and seven crew members were on board the plane. Among

the passengers were six nuclear physicists on their way to a physics conference.

I was a nuclear physicist a few years back, are we more prone to conspiracy shenanigans? ><

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Many bodies were taken out of the plane,” he said. “It was easy to get the bodies

because the plane did not break into pieces. I saw a few bodies lying on the ground.”

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I was in the aerospace industry for awhile, and have always taken an interest in plane crash stories, to try and learn what went wrong and how to avoid it in the future.

Very frequently, initial stories in the first hours or days after the disaster have details that are incomplete or just plain wrong. But on the surface, this accident report doesn't sound any more mysterious than most others (and a lot LESS mysterious than some initial reports, like AA 191 or USAIR 427 for example).

They found the black boxes and wreckage. It'll take time, but they'll be able to piece together the details.

That makes sense.

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Alien terrorists.

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Alien terrorists.