Pegasus Airlines plane recovered from Turkey airport cliff edge using crane
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Turkish authorities have used a large crane to recover a passenger plane that skidded off a runway in northern Turkey and came to a halt on a cliff edge metres from the Black Sea.
The Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-800, with 168 people on board, left the runway after landing at Trabzon Airport on January 13.
All passengers and crew were evacuated and no one was injured, but those on board spoke of panic as the aircraft tipped nose-first towards the sea at Trabzon airport in north-east Turkey.
Ambulances and fire extinguishing trucks were on standby on Thursday as the crane lifted the plane off the slope.
Turkish media said the pilots told investigators that the plane's right engine experienced a sudden surge of speed that forced it to swerve to the left, toward the sea.
AP/Reuters
Topics: air-and-space, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, turkey
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