Moment navy jet skims over busy highway crash touchdown in Turkey
This is the second a navy aircraft skimmed just some yards above vehicles travelling down a busy highway in Turkey, minutes earlier than it crashed because it took half in a coaching train.
The C-160T Transall transport plane, flying with the Turkish Air Force, was compelled into an emergency touchdown after it suffered a technical error midair on January 25.
The aircraft, which took off from the twelfth Air Transport Base Command within the north of town of Kayseri, was seen flying just some yards above residential areas.
One clip confirmed the aircraft, which carries the serial quantity 69-036, slowly flying above a busy highway, whereas one other clip confirmed it above a stadium within the metropolis, which has a inhabitants of 1.43 million and sits about 160 miles from Ankara.
Footage confirmed its left-side propeller of the aircraft, named ‘Gören-1’ by the Turkish Air Force, apparently failing and slowing down, whereas the right-side propeller seems to work. The footage additionally exhibits the aircraft’s touchdown gear was up.
One clip confirmed the aircraft, which carries the serial quantity 69-036, slowly flying above a busy highway
The aircraft additionally flew above a stadium within the metropolis, which has a inhabitants of 1.43 million and sits about 160 miles from Ankara
Footage confirmed its left-side propeller of the aircraft, named ‘Gören-1’ by the Turkish Air Force, apparently failing and slowing down
Separate footage confirmed the aircraft, which has just lately undergone upgrades to turn into an intelligence-focused command and management/goal acquisition plane, slowly grinding throughout the tarmac of a touchdown strip
Separate footage confirmed the aircraft, which has just lately undergone upgrades to turn into an intelligence-focused command and management/goal acquisition plane, slowly grinding throughout the tarmac of a touchdown strip.
The aircraft’s fuselage seemed to be scraping throughout the tarmac, and the touchdown gear didn’t seem like engaged in the course of the crash.
Turkey’s air drive mentioned that nobody was injured or killed within the crash, including that the aircraft solely suffered ‘minor injury.’
The crash in Turkey comes days after a Russian navy aircraft carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners-of-war crashed in an enormous fireball in a area close to the border with Ukraine.
Dramatic video exhibits an out-of-control Ilyushin Il-76 plunging from the sky and smashing into the bottom in entrance of horrified locals within the village of Yablonovo, which is simply 26 miles from the Ukrainian border.
As the big 164ft aircraft slams into the bottom, it explodes into an enormous fireball that engulfs the 72-tonne jet in flames.
Within minutes of the crash, Russia claimed the navy aircraft was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of warfare, six crew and three individuals accompanying them, with out offering any proof. Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of Belgorod area, mentioned all 74 individuals onboard had been killed within the crash.
Sources inside the Ukrainian navy had informed native media that the downing of the Russian navy plane was ‘their work’ and that it was carrying S-300 air defence missiles. But that declare was later retracted.
And Andrei Kartapolov, a member of Russia’s State Duma and a retired normal, claimed the aircraft was shot down by three varieties of missiles that the West has provided to Ukraine, with out offering proof.
He mentioned investigations would reveal whether or not the missiles have been the US-made Patriots or German IRIS-Ts.