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Plane with 56 aboard crashes in Turkey

Society Materials 30 November 2007 09:17 (UTC +04:00)

An Atlasjet plane carrying 56 people crashed just before landing in central Turkey early Friday, and a police helicopter detected the wreckage, officials said. The plane's wreckage was seen near the town of Keciborlu in Isparta province, and search and rescue teams were headed to the area, local governor Alper Faruk Gungor said. The plane went off the radar just before landing. Helicopters took off from Ankara, the capital, to search for the plane, which went missing after it reported approaching toward the airport near the city of Isparta. The MD 83 jetliner took off from Istanbul at around 7 p.m. EST and headed to Isparta // news.yahoo.com

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