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Turkish Passenger Plane Skids Off Runway, Stuck On Cliff

Ankara (January 14, 2018): A passenger plane late Saturday skidded off the runway just metres away from the sea as it landed at an airport in northern Turkey.

The Pegasus Airlines flight had taken off smoothly from the capital Ankara and landed in Trabzon, but skidded off the runway in the northern airport. No one was injured or killed in the landing.Dramatic images showed the plane dangerously hanging off a cliff several metres (feet) from the Black Sea, its wheels stuck in the mud.Pegasus Airlines confirmed in a statement Sunday there were no injuries among the 162 passengers onboard as well as two pilots and four cabin crew after they were evacuated.

The cause of the incident was not known but an investigation is under way, the Trabzon governor’s office said. The airport was temporarily shut before reopening on Sunday morning.

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