THY RJ-100 Crash southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir Thursday Jan. 9, 2003
Undated handout photo of a Turkish Airlines plane, an RJ-100. A Turkish Airlines RJ-100 crashed Wednesday as it tried to land at an airport in southeastern Turkey, killing 72 people, Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu said.
A Turkish Airlines passenger plane carrying more than 70 people on a domestic flight crashed in southeast Turkey on January 8, 2003 and most of those on board were feared dead, officials and witnesses said. 'Apart from the five who have been reported injured it may be that the others have died,' a senior police official said. (MapInfo, NASA (news - web sites)-Visible Earth/Reuters Graphic)
A Turkish Airlines passenger plane carrying more than 70 people on a domestic flight crashed in southeast Turkey on January 8, 2003 and most of those on board were feared dead, officials and witnesses said. 'Apart from the five who have been reported injured it may be that the others have died,' a senior police official said.
Turkish military experts examine remains of the Turkish Airlines plane that crashed Wednesday night, at Diyarbakir airport, Turkey, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2003. Seventy-Five people were killed and five others were injured, officials said.
Municipal workers prepare graves for victims of a plane crash in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey, Thursday Jan. 9, 2003. Families began identifying the remains of 75 people killed after a Turkish Airlines jetliner crashed short of a fog-covered runway in southeastern Turkey. Five survivors aboard the flight from Istanbul were hospitalized after the plane came down Wednesday in the military section of the airport in Diyarbakir. (AP Photo/Sabit Cekin/Anatolia)
The remains of a Turkish Airlines passenger plane are scattered at the crash site in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, Thursday Jan. 9, 2003. The plane split apart in flames as it crashed short of a fog-shrouded runway in southeastern Turkey. Officials said 75 people were killed and five injured. (AP Photo/Anatolia)
 
Medics try to identify the burnt body of one of the victims of the Turkish Airlines plane that crashed Wednesday night, at the morgue of the Dicle university hospital in Diyarbakir, Turkey, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2003. Sevent-five people were killed and five others were injured. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
Deniz Yunak, wife of pilot Alaaddin Yunak who was killed in Wednesday's Turkish Airlines crash, is comforted by unidentified friends at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport Thursday Jan. 9, 2003, before flying to the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir. Families began identifying the remains of 75 people killed after the jetliner crashed short of a fog-covered runway in Diyarbakir. Five survivors aboard the flight from Istanbul were hospitalized after the plane came down Wednesday in the military section of the airport in Diyarbakir. (AP Photo/Hurriyet)
Wreckage is seen on the ground at the site of the Turkish Airlines plane crash near Diyarbakir airport in southeastern Turkey, Wednesday Jan. 8, 2003. The Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul crashed as it tried to land in Diyarbakir, killing 75 people the Transport Ministry said
Relatives of victims of the January 8 Turkish passenger plane crash wait at Istanbul's Ataturk airport, January 9, 2003 before being flown to the disaster site to collect their relatives remains. The Turkish Airlines passenger plane which had been flying from Istanbul to Diyarbakir, crashed in thick fog and burst into flames as it tried to land in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, killing 75 people. REUTERS/Mustafa Ozer
Charred bodies of Turkish plane crash victims are lined up to be identified by relatives at a basketball hall in the southeast Turkish city of Diyarbakir, January 9, 2003. The investigation into how a Turkish Airlines passenger plane crashed and burst into flames on landing, killing 75 people, began on Thursday as the prime minister headed for the disaster site. Five survivors were taken to hospital, some in serious condition. REUTERS/Anatolian
An instrument panel from a Turkish Airlines RJ-100 passenger plane is seen after it crashed near the Diyarbakir airport in southeastern Turkey, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2003. The Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul crashed as it tried to land in Diyarbakir in heavy fog killing 75 people, the Transport Ministry said. (AP Photo/Anatolia)
A soldier and another unidentified person search through the rubble at the site of a plane crash near the Diyarbakir airport in southeastern Turkey, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2003. The Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul crashed as it tried to land in Diyarbakir, killing 75 people the Transport Ministry said. (AP Photo/Anatolia)
 
Rubble is seen on the ground at the site of the Turkish Airlines plane crash near Diyarbakir airport in southeastern Turkey, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2003. The Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul crashed as it tried to land in Diyarbakir, killing 75 people, according to the Transport Ministry. (AP Photo/Anatolia)
 
A Turkish airlines RJ-100 passenger plane is seen in this undated file photo. A similar Turkish Airlines passenger plane crashed Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2003 as it tried to land at the Diyarbakir airport in southeastern Turkey, killing 72 people. (AP Photo/Anatoli)
Turkish soldiers and rescue workers carry late January 8, 2003, one of 75 victims of Turkish passenger plane after it crashed at Diyarbakir airport. A Turkish airlines passenger plane, which had been flying from Istanbul to Diyarbakir, crashed in thick fog and burst into flames as it tried to land in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, killing 75 people, officials and witnesses said. Five survivors were taken to hospital, some in serious condition. REUTERS/anatolian
 
A wedding dress and red and white carnations adorn the flag-draped coffin of Turkish stewardess Devlet Halilogullari, whose picture is carried by a mourner in Istanbul, January 11, 2003, during a funeral for the five crew members of Turkish airliner killed in a plane crash in southeast Turkey. The Turkish airlines RJ-100 burst into flames as it was landing in thick fog in Diyarbakir on Wednesday night, killing 75 on board, while five people escaped the crash alive. REUTERS/Fatih Saribas
 
Rubble is seen on the ground at the site of the Turkish Airlines plane crash near Diyarbakir airport in southeastern Turkey, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2003. The Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul crashed as it tried to land in Diyarbakir, killing 75 people, according to the Transport Ministry. (AP Photo/Anatolia)
 
Turkish military officials examine the wreckage of the Turkish Airlines plane that crashed Wednesday night, at Diyarbakir airport, Turkey, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2003. Officials said 75 people were killed. The five survivors were hospitalized.

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