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WORLD NEWS Monday 15 January 2018

Plane dangles off cliff after skidding off runway in Turkey

that everyone was evacu- words weren’t enough to
ated safely. describe their fear.
Images show the aircraft “It’s a miracle we escaped.
on its belly and at an acute We could have burned, ex-
angle just above the wa- ploded, flown into the sea,”
ter. If it had slid any further Gordu said. “Thank God for
along the slope, the plane this. I feel like I’m going cra-
would have likely plunged zy when I think about it.”
into the Black Sea in the Another passenger, Fatma
Turkish province of Trabzon. Gordu, told private Dogan
The incident late Saturday news agency that there
created panic among the was a loud sound after
162 passengers on board landing.
Pegasus Airlines Flight “We swerved all of a sud-
PC8622. The six-member den,” she said. “The front of
crew, including two pilots, the plane crashed and the
was also evacuated and back was in the air. Every-
Pegasus said there were one panicked.”
no injuries. Flights were sus- Trabzon Gov. Yucel Yavuz
pended at Trabzon Airport said that investigators were
for several hours after the trying to determine why the
incident before resuming plane had left the runway.
again Sunday. The prosecutor’s office
A Boeing 737-800 of Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines after skidding off the runway downhill towards the
sea at the airport in Trabzon, Turkey, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2018. Trabzon Gov. Yucel Yavuz said all Passenger Yuksel Gordu launched an investigation.
162 passengers and crew on board were evacuated and safe early Sunday. The cause of the told Turkey’s official An- The flight originated in the
accident was not yet known. adolu news agency that capital, Ankara.q
(DHA-Depo Photos via AP)
By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY off a runway after landing feet from the sea.
Associated Press in northern Turkey dangled Some of the 168 people on
ISTANBUL (AP) — A com- precariously off a muddy board the Boeing 737-800
mercial plane that skidded cliff with its nose only a few described it as a “miracle”

Iran oil tanker explodes, sinks off China

By AMIR VAHDAT by ambulance to nearby Shanghai, remains unclear.
Associated Press hospitals as they were so The CF Crystal had 21 crew
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A overwhelmed by the news. members, all of whom were
burning Iranian oil tanker “Thirty-two people died reported safe.
exploded and sank Sunday without a funeral and with- But the Sanchi, carrying
after more than a week list- out coffins! They burned to nearly 1 million barrels of a
ing off the coast of China, ashes while their families gassy, ultra-light oil bound
as an Iranian official ac- were wailing here!” cried for South Korea, burst into
knowledged there was “no out one woman who didn’t flames. Chinese officials
hope” of missing sailors sur- give her name. The gov- blamed poor weather for
viving the disaster. ernment “has come after complicating their rescue
The collision and disaster of 10 days to sympathize with efforts. Thirteen ships, in-
the Sanchi, which carried them? What sympathy are cluding one from South Ko-
30 Iranians and two Ban- you talking about?” rea and two from Japan,
gladeshis, had transfixed State TV earlier quoted engaged in the rescue and
an Iran still reeling from Mahmoud Rastad, the cleanup effort Saturday,
days of protests and unrest chief of Iran’s maritime spraying foam in an effort
that swept the country at agency, as saying: “There to extinguish the fire.
the start of the year. is no hope of finding survi- But around noon Sunday,
Families of the sailors wept vors among the (missing) 29 Chinese state media re-
and screamed at the members of the crew.” ported that a large explo-
headquarters of the Na- The cause of the Jan. 6 col- sion shook the Sanchi, its hull
tional Iranian Tanker Co. in lision between the Sanchi and superstructure com-
Tehran, the private com- and the Chinese freighter pletely stripped of paint by
pany that owns the Sanchi. CF Crystal, 257 kilometers the flames. The ship then
Some needed to be taken (160 miles) off the coast of sank into the sea.q