Turkey mourms crew of cargo plane crashed in Kyrgyzstan

Record ID: 164904

  • Title: Turkey mourms crew of cargo plane crashed in Kyrgyzstan
  • Date: 19th January 2017
  • Summary: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (JANUARY 19, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF ATAKOY OMER DURUK MOSQUE PEOPLE CRYING OVER THE COFFIN COVERED WITH TURKISH FLAG MAN PRAYING VARIOUS OF RELATIVES MOURNING AND TOUCHING COFFIN WOMAN CRYING HANDS TOUCHING COFFIN PEOPLE MOURNING IN FRONT OF COFFINS WOMAN HUGGING COFFIN WOMAN BEING LED AWAY FROM COFFIN MEN PRAYING VARIOUS OF IMAM PRAYING VARIOUS OF IMAM AND PEOPLE PRAYING AND BID FAREWELL DEAD PILOTS AND CREW SOLDIERS MARCHING WITH COFFINS PEOPLE SALUTING AND WATCHING VARIOUS OF COFFINS BEING CARRIED OUT OF MOSQUE GARDEN PEOPLE WATCHING COFFIN OF PILOT KAZIM ONDUL BEING PUT ON MILITARY TRUCK PICTURE OF DEAD PILOT KAZIM ONDUL VARIOUS OF FUNERAL MARCH FOR DEAD PILOTS AND CREW OF KYRGYZSTAN PLANE CRASH
  • Embargoed: 2nd February 2017 15:51
  • Keywords: Kyrgyzstan plane plane crash Boeing Turkey cargo mourning
  • Location: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
  • City: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: Air Accidents,Disaster/Accidents
  • Reuters ID: LVA0015ZR0BBB
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:A funeral ceremony was held in Istanbul on Thursday (January 19) for the four victims of a Turkish plane crashed near Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on Monday (January 16).
    People came together to pay their respects to the two pilots and two other crew members, who died when their Boeing 747 plane crashed into a small village near Bishkek on Monday.
    The plane, owned by Istanbul-based cargo company ACT airlines, crashed about two kilometres away from the runway of the Manas international airport, killing 37 people on the ground.
    It was supposed to make a stopover at the airport, before continuing its journey from Hong Kong to Istanbul, airport officials said, but it crashed in poor visibility.
    The plane ploughed on for a few hundred metres (yards) through the village, home to hundreds of families, causing widespread damage.
    An area the size of a football pitch was completely levelled with wreckage.
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