UPDATE: Three killed, 179 injured after plane carrying 183 crashes on runway in Istanbul, according to Turkey's Health Minister
Turkish soldiers stand guard as rescuers work at the crash of a Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737 airplane, after it skidded off the runway upon landing at Sabiha Gokcen airport in Istanbul on February 5, 2020.
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca reported early Thursday that three people had died and 179 required care at multiple hospitals. “We travelled for some 20 or 30 seconds, then all of a sudden we flew off the runway,” he said while seated in a wheelchair because of a leg injury. “It happened in seconds.”
Dozens of rescue crew members swarmed around the flood-lit fuselage, including around the cockpit, which had flipped over.
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