A passenger plane crashed into a lamp pole in the rear wing at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport, causing no injuries, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Friday.
An Airbus A-320 plane of Atlasjet, en route to Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, with 56 passengers on board, took down the lamp pole when it went off-hook a push-back car, the report said.
The rear wing was damaged, and passengers were evacuated and placed at a nearby hotel, it added, Xinhua reported.
On Nov. 30, 2007, an Atlasjet plane crashed on a rocky mountain shortly before it was due to land in southwestern Turkey, killing all 56 people on board.
Atlasjet, a private airline established in 2001, operates regular flights inside Turkey and chartered flights to Europe and other foreign destinations.
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