Turkish Airlines Takes Lessons From Katmandu Crash involving Airbus A330-300
Turkish Airlines Takes Lessons From Katmandu Crash involving Airbus A330-300 Whats Happened... On the data of 5th March, 2015, Turkish Airlines flight TK-726 took off from İstanbul Ataturk Airport with a brand new Airbus A330-300 to Katmandu in Nepal at 20:25 at local time. Tail number TC-JOC was carrying 224 passengers and 11 cabin crew and headed to Katmandu’s Tribhuwan International Airport in Nepal. Due to heavy fog and skiddy runway The plane on a seven-hour flight circled for half hour over Nepal before it made a second attempt to land. During the second try, the landing gears collapsed and the plane nose-dived on the runway at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu. The runway was slippery after two days of rain and there was dense fog at the time. No passengers on the flight were seriously hurt in the incident but some were given medical attention after evacuation. One-year-old aircaft will be scrapped. According to the local media, Tur...