Military Plane Crash Kills All 34 Aboard
A military transport plane carrying Special Forces soldiers crashed in southern Turkey, killing all 34 people on board in one of the country’s worst military air disasters.
The twin-engine plane was flying from the southeastern city of Diyarbakir to the capital, Ankara, when it dove into an orchard in Malatya province, 155 miles northwest of Diyarbakir, witnesses said.
The cause of the crash was under investigation, but a military official blamed a technical malfunction.
Witness Ismail Ertas said he saw the plane rapidly lose altitude and fly near two houses close to his village of Guzyurdu before crashing. He said the pilot steered the plane away from houses toward a field.
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