Passenger plane carrying 168 people skids off runway and down a seaside cliff
A plane with 168 people aboard skidded off a runway onto a seaside cliff after landing at an airport in northern Turkey.
The Pegasus Airlines flight had taken off smoothly from the capital Ankara bound for Trabzon, where the accident occurred as the plane was landing late Saturday.
Photos from CNN Turk broadcaster showed the plane lying on the cliffside, its nose just metres from the waters of the Black Sea and its wheels stuck in mud.
A passenger called the skid a "miracle" as no one was injured.
“There was panic, people shouting, screaming,” one of the passengers, Fatma Gordu, told state-run Anadolu news agency.
“When they told us to leave from the rear exit, everyone tried to push ahead of everyone else. It was a terrible situation.”
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She said they could smell fuel and feared that a fire would break out.
“That is why we were scared,” she said, adding that there were pregnant women and children on board.
