{"id":319700,"date":"2020-02-06T03:25:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T03:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319700"},"modified":"2020-02-06T03:25:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T03:25:23","slug":"three-dead-many-injured-as-turkish-plane-skids-off-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/three-dead-many-injured-as-turkish-plane-skids-off-runway\/","title":{"rendered":"Three dead, many injured as Turkish plane skids off runway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319701 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/plane-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/plane-1.jpg 541w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/plane-1-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/plane-1-538x420.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/>A plane flying into Istanbul&#8217;s Sabiha Gokcen\u00a0International Airport on Wednesday\u00a0skidded off the runway while landing in rough weather and broke apart, killing three people and injuring 179, authorities in Turkey said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Live images broadcast on Turkish television showed numerous people climbing through a large crack in the severed aircraft and escaping onto one of the wings at the rear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The plane was apparently buffeted by strong winds and heavy rain lashing Istanbul, Turkey&#8217;s largest city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Istanbul Govenor Ali Yerlikaya said the plane failed to &#8220;hold onto the runway&#8221; due to poor weather conditions and skidded some 50-60 metres before it dropped into the ditch from a height of about 30 metres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said that three people had died and 179 injured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Images showed that the plane caught fire after it skidded off, which reports said was quickly extinguished by firefighters.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plane flying into Istanbul&#8217;s Sabiha Gokcen\u00a0International Airport on Wednesday\u00a0skidded off the runway while landing in rough weather and broke apart, killing three people and injuring 179, authorities in Turkey said. Live images broadcast on Turkish television showed numerous people climbing through a large crack in the severed aircraft and escaping onto one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[3489],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319702,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319700\/revisions\/319702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}