The plane of the Turkish Defense Minister was urgently landed

Besides the minister, the high command of the Turkish Armed Forces was also on board the plane. The reason was a bird

 The plane of the Turkish Defense Minister was urgently landed

Hulusi Akar

Shortly after takeoff, the plane with Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on board made an emergency landing, Anadolu agency reports.

The plane went to an emergency landing due to a collision with a bird, which caused a crack in the glass.

The incident occurred shortly after the plane took off from an airfield in the southern Turkish province of Gaziantep. The Minister was returning from an inspection trip to the border with Syria.

In addition to the head of the Turkish Defense Ministry, the chief of the General Staff, General Yashar Guler, and the commander of the Ground Forces, General Umit Dundar, and other military leaders were on board.

In September 2020, a plane with former US Vice President Mike Pence on board collided with a bird when he was returning to Washington from Guilford (New Hampshire) after a rally in support of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. The board returned back. As a result, Pence flew to Washington by cargo plane.

One of the most famous cases of collisions with birds in the world of passenger aviation was an incident that was called the “Miracle on the Hudson”. In January 2009, an A320 plane of the American airline US Airways landed on the Hudson River due to the failure of both engines-a bird got into each. Shortly after takeoff, the plane collided with a flock of birds, the pilot warned passengers about an emergency situation and the upcoming landing on the water, they managed to put on life jackets.

Many passengers got out of the cabin on their own, dozens of ships and rescuers went to the plane immediately after the landing. About half an hour after the crash, the plane sank almost completely.

All 148 passengers and 6 crew members on board survived, 78 passengers were taken to hospitals in New York with minor bruises or hypothermia. The commander of the crew who managed to land the plane in extremely difficult conditions was pilot Chesley Selinberger, who worked at US Airways since 1980.

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