Plane skids off runway at Turkish airport and ends up on cliff face metres from the sea

A passenger jet carrying 168 people skidded off a runway at a Turkish airport, coming to rest on a cliff edge just metres from the sea.

The Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-800 skidded off the runway at Trabzon airport on Saturday evening after arriving from Turkey’s capital Ankara.

Nobody was injured and the 162 passengers, two pilots and four cabin crew were evacuated from the plane.

Footage from inside the plane reportedly shows panicked passengers in the aftermath of the crash.

One passenger, Fatma Gordu, is reported as saying: “We tilted to the side, the front was down while the plane’s rear was up. There was panic. People shouting, screaming.”

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The incident left Trabzon Airport shut but it reopened on Sunday morning.

In a statement, Pegasus Airlines described the crash as a “Runway Excusion Incident”.

The airline said: “We’re sorry to report that the Boeing 737-800 type TC-CPF registered aircraft of Pegasus Airlines Flight Number PC 8622 Ankara-Trabzon flight scheduled at 18:25 UTC tonight, had a Runway Excursion Incident during landing at Trabzon Airport (13 January 2018).

“All 162 passengers, 2 pilots and 4 cabin crew have been disembarked safely from the aircraft.

“There has been no loss of life or injury to anyone on-board.”