Turkish Airlines Crashes: 42 Die in Sea of Marmara
The pilot never saw it coming. Battling thick fog and treacherous visibility, Turkish Airlines Flight 345 descended toward Istanbul's airport and simply... vanished. Radar lost contact. Witnesses heard nothing. Then, catastrophically, the Boeing 727 slammed into the Sea of Marmara, breaking apart on impact. Forty-two souls disappeared into the gray waters, their final moments a blur of mechanical failure and impossible conditions. No survivors. Just wreckage and silence.
January 30, 1975
51 years ago
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