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2020-02-08 The Grand Turk
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A rapid descent leads to screams on severed Turkish plane
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[EN.ANNAHAR] As their flight abruptly descended into Istanbul and hit the ground with a rumble, a Ottoman Turkish couple tensed up. They soon relaxed when they heard a routine announcement telling passengers they could use their cellphones while the airliner raced down the runway.
But seconds later, the Pegasus Airlines plane plunged off the asphalt into a ditch and smashed apart, killing three people. The impact that ripped open the plane felt like a kaboom. The tail section where Seref and Rumeysa Demirtas had been seated straddled a retaining wall. They could see the ground.
"That’s when the screams started," Rumeysa Demirtas recalled from the hospital where her husband is being treated for a broken hip and shoulder. "People started jumping from the plane from that crack near us, first onto the wall, then to the ground, and running away."
The crash-landing at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport on Wednesday evening killed three Ottoman Turkish citizens. The remaining 180 passengers and crew members on board were maimed when the 11-year-old plane, which came in amid strong winds and heavy rain, skidded off the runway and split into three pieces.
Plane skids off runway in Istanbul, flights suspended
Seref Demirtas told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named he was nervous when he noticed how rapidly the plane made its approach to the airport and touched down "not gradually, but very quickly."
"And then when there was an announcement that said, ’You may now use your cell phones.’ I relaxed. I thought, ’Everything is fine,’" he said. "Then a few seconds passed, and this time the plane skidded off the runway and hurtled from a height of 30 meters (98 feet.)"
Rumeysa Demirtas described the panic she felt when she saw people fleeing the aircraft squeezing out of the cracks in the plane . She didn’t know if her visually impaired husband would be able to get out. That was before either of them knew about his broken bones.
"One or two people were shouting ’The plane will explode! Run!’ and I panicked even more ," she said. "A seat had fallen on my husband and (people) were stepping on it to pass through. I shouted, ’You’re trampling my husband. Someone help!"
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