Turkish Airlines Flight 835

(Redirected from 1961 Turkish Airlines Ankara crash) 1961 aviation accident

Turkish Airlines Flight 835
Accident
A Fokker F27-100 of Turkish Airlines
Date	23 September 1961 (1961-09-23)
Summary	Struck hill on final approach
Site	Karanlıktepe, Ankara Province, Turkey 40°00′N 32°54′E / 40°N 32.9°E / 40; 32.9
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Fokker F27 Friendship 100
Operator	Turkish Airlines
Registration	TC-TAY
Flight origin	Adana Şakirpaşa Airport, Turkey
Destination	Esenboğa International Airport, Ankara, Turkey
Occupants	29
Passengers	25
Crew	4
Fatalities	28
Survivors	1

Turkish Airlines Flight 835 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Adana Şakirpaşa Airport,to Esenboğa International Airport, Ankara, Turkey. On 23 September 1961 at 20:02 EET (18:02 UTC), the aircraft operating the flight, a brand-new Fokker F27 Friendship 100 struck the Karanlıktepe hill in Ankara Province on final approach some 18 kilometres (11 mi) off the runway centerline.

There were 25 passengers and 4 crew on board, of which 24 passengers and all four crew members were killed in the accident.

The probable cause of the accident was that the aircraft was not in the normal flying pattern and was well below its designated altitude.

References

"Accident Details 1961-37". Plane Crash Info. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
"Aircraft accident Fokker F-27 Friendship 100 TC-TAY Ankara (ESB)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
"TBMM" (PDF) (in Turkish). TBMM. Retrieved 24 August 2016.

v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in 1961 (1961)
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1960 ◄ ► 1962

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v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in Turkey
1950s	Air France Flight 152 (August 1953) Bursa airplane crash (July 1957) Air Charter Turkey crash (April 1959)
1960s	Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 871 (January 1960) Turkish Airlines Flight 835 (September 1961) British European Airways Flight 226 (December 1961) Turkish Airlines Taurus Mountains crash (March 1962) Ankara mid-air collision (February 1963)
1970s	Turkish Airlines Adana crash (January 1972) Turkish Airlines Flight 301 (January 1974) Turkish Airlines Flight 345 (January 1975) Turkish Airlines Flight 452 (September 1976) Turkish Airlines Ankara crash (December 1979)
1980s	Turkish Airlines Flight 158 (January 1983) Condor Flugdienst Flight 3782 (January 1988)
1990s	Turkish Airlines Flight 278 (December 1994) Turkish Airlines Flight 5904 (April 1999)
2000s	Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 (October 2001) Turkish Airlines Flight 634 (January 2003) Ukrainian-Mediterranean Airlines Flight 4230 (May 2003) Atlasjet Flight 4203 (November 2007) Medair Bell 206 crash (March 2009)
2010s	Turkish F-4 Phantom shootdown (June 2012) Swan Aviation Sikorsky S-76 crash (March 2017) Pegasus Airlines Flight 8622 (January 2018)
2020s	Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193 (February 2020) Turkish Air Force Eurocopter AS532 Cougar crash (March 2021)
See also: List of hijackings of Turkish airplanes

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