Plane crash-lands in Istanbul

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The wreckage of a Pegasus Airlines plane at the Sabiha Gokcen International Airport in Istanbul Associated Press/Photo by Can Erok/DHA

One person died and 157 people were taken to the hospital with injuries on Wednesday after a jet skidded off the runway in Istanbul and broke apart on landing.

What happened? The plane was landing in heavy rain and a strong tailwind and could not decelerate as needed, a transportation official told the Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency. It slid into a field at the end of the runway and broke into pieces. Footage of the wreck showed passengers crawling out of cracks in the torn fuselage. The low-cost Pegasus Airlines plane was arriving at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen International Airport from the western Turkish city of Izmir.

WORLD has updated this report since its initial publication with a revised number of deaths and injuries from the crash.

Lynde Langdon

Lynde is WORLD’s executive editor for news. She is a graduate of World Journalism Institute, the Missouri School of Journalism, and the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Lynde resides with her family in Wichita, Kan.

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