The World - News from June 9, 1987

Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal escaped injury when his small jet made an emergency landing at Istanbul airport. The prime minister’s Gulfstream III executive jet skidded down the airport tarmac for several hundred yards after it crash-landed with its landing gear retracted shortly after takeoff, eyewitnesses said. Airport firemen dragged Ozal and other passengers out of the 19-seat plane through the cockpit window as the jet filled with smoke. Ozal was taken from the scene in a fire engine. Officials at the Istanbul mayor’s office later said the prime minister was “safe and well” and had resumed his journey to Ankara, the capital, on a scheduled flight.