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It took 2 cranes to lift the 41-tonne plane that skidded off an icy runway in Turkey

It took 2 cranes to lift the 41-tonne plane that skidded off an icy runway in Turkey
  • Emergency services in Turkey have successfully recovered the plane that skidded off an icy runway at the Trabzon Airport.

  • Two cranes were required to lift the 41-tonne Boeing 737-800.

  • It is thought that the accident was due to a fault in one of the plane's engines.


 

Transport officials on Thursday recovered a plane that skidded off a runway in northern Turkey.

The Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-800 had 168 people on board when it skidded off the runway at Trabzon Airport on Saturday.

It stopped at an acute angle only a few metres away from the Black Sea.

All passengers and crew were evacuated and no one was injured.

Turkish media reported the pilots of the plane as telling investigators that the right engine experienced a sudden surge of speed that forced it to swerve to the left.

Produced by David Ibekwe.

 

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