Turkish Airlines

Turkish Airlines Destinations

Afghanistan

• Kabul
• Mazar-i Sharif

Albania

• Tirana

Algeria

• Algiers
• Constantine

Argentina

• Buenos Aires

Australia

• Sydney

Azerbaijan

• Ganja

Belgium

• Brussels

Cameroon

• Douala

• Yaoundé

Canada

• Edmonton

• Ottawa
• Quebec
• Toronto

China

• Shanghai

Croatia

• Zagreb

Cuba

• Havana

Czech Republic

• Prague

Denmark

• Aalborg
• Aarhus

Egypt

• Cairo
• Hurghada
• Luxor

Eritrea

• Asmara

Ethiopia

• Addis Ababa

Finland

• Rovaniemi

France

• Lyon
• Paris

Georgia

• Batumi

• Tbilisi

Germany

• Berlin

• Cologne
• Hamburg
• Hannover

• Karlsruhe
• Münster

• Stuttgart

Ghana

• Accra

Greece

• Athens

Hungary

• Budapest

Italy

• Milan
• Pisa

Iran

• Mashhad
• Shiraz

• Tehran

Iraq

• Baghdad

• Basra

• Najaf
• Sulaymaniyah

Ivory Coast

• Abidjan

Japan

• Tokyo

Jordan

• Aqaba

Kosovo

• Pristina

Kuwait

• Kuwait City

Lebanon

• Beirut

Lithuania

• Vilnius

Malaysia

• Kuala Lumpur

Maldives

• Male

Malta

• Malta

Mauritania

• Nouakchott

Mexico

• Cancun

Moldova

• Chișinău

Mongolia

• Ulaanbaatar

Montenegro

• Podgorica

Nepal

• Kathmandu

New Zealand

• Christchurch

• Wellington

Nigeria

• Abuja

Norway

• Alesund

• Bergen

• Haugesund

• Stavanger

Pakistan

• Islamabad
• Karachi

• Lahore

Portugal

• Funchal

• Lisbon
• Porto

Romania

• Bucharest

Russia

• Kazan

• Samara
• Sochi

• Stavropol
• Yekaterinburg

Rwanda

• Kigali

Saudi Arabia

• Al-Qassim

• Jeddah

• Riyadh
• Ta'if

Senegal

• Dakar

Serbia

• Belgrade

Seychelles

• The Seychelles

Sierra Leone

• Freetown

Singapore

• Singapore

Slovenia

• Ljubljana

South Korea

• Seoul

South Sudan

• Juba

Spain

• Barcelona
• Valencia

Sweden

• Gothenburg

• Stockholm

Switzerland

• Basel

• Zürich

Tajikstan

• Dushanbe

Tanzania

• Kilimanjaro

Turkey

• Adana
• Adıyaman

• Amasya
• Bingöl
• Bursa
• Diyarbakır
• Elazığ
• Isparta
• Istanbul
• Kastamonu
• Kayseri
• Konya
• Malatya
• Muğla
• Samsun
• Şanlıurfa
• Siirt
• Sinop

• Şırnak

• Tekirdağ
• Tokat
• Trabzon

Turkmenistan

• Ashgabat

Ukraine

• Kharkiv
• Kherson
• Kiev

• Lviv

United Arab Emirates

• Abu Dhabi

• Dubai
• Sharjah

United States

• Atlanta

• Buffalo
• Chicago

• Cincinnati

• Dallas
• Houston
• Miami
• Raleigh
• San Francisco
• Seattle

Vietnam

• Hanoi
• Hồ Chí Minh City

Incidents and accidents

Turkish Airlines has suffered 19 incidents and accidents, 15 of which were fatal.

Incident	Date	Aircraft type	Location	Fatalities	Destination	Cause
1959 Gatwick crash	February 17, 1959	Vickers 794D Viscount	5,2 W of London-Gatwick Airport, UK	14/24	London Airport, UK	CFIT due to dense fog
Flight 835	September 23, 1961	Fokker F27-100	ca. 18 km from Ankara-Esenboga Airport, Turkey	28/29	Ankara-Esenboga Airport, Turkey	Aircraft was below normal altitude during approach
1962 Taurus Mountains crash	March 8, 1962	Fairchild F-27	Taurus Mountains, Turkey	11/11	Adana Airport, Turkey	Weather conditions
Domestic cargo flight crash	February 3, 1964	C-47 Skytrain	near Ankara-Esenboga, Turkey	3/3	Ankara-Esenboga Airport, Turkey	Aircraft deviated from instrument flight rules
Scheduled passenger flight crash	February 2, 1969	Vickers 794D Viscount	Ankara-Esenboga Airport, Turkey	0/26	Ankara-Esenboga Airport, Turkey	Collided with electricity pylon
Flight 301	January 26, 1974	Fokker F28-1000	Izmir-Cumaovasi Airport, Turkey	66/73	Istanbul-Yesilköy Airport, Turkey	Stalled on takeoff due to ice on wings
Flight 981	March 3, 1974	McDonnell Douglas DC-10	Ermenonville Forest, Fontaine-Chaalis, Oise, France	346/346	London-Heathrow Airport, UK	Cargo door failure due to design flaw
Flight 345	January 30, 1975	Fokker F28-1000	Sea of Marmara, Turkey	42/42	Istanbul-Yesilköy Airport, Turkey	CFIT (water) during go-around
Flight 452	September 19, 1976	Boeing 727-200	Karatepe, Isparta, Turkey	154/154	Antalya Airport, Turkey	CFIT due to pilot error
1979 Ankara crash	December 23, 1979	Fokker F28-1000	32 km N of Ankara-Esenboga Airport, Turkey	41/45	Ankara-Esenboga Airport, Turkey	CFIT
Flight 158	January 16, 1983	Boeing 727-200	near Ankara-Esenboga Airport, Turkey	47/67	Ankara-Esenboga Airport, Turkey	CFIT due to pilot error
Flight 278	December 29, 1994	Boeing 737-400	near Van Ferit Melen Airport, Turkey	57/76	Van Airport, Turkey	CFIT due to driving snow
Flight 5904	April 7, 1999	Boeing 737-400	near Ceyhan, Adana Province, Turkey	0/6	Jeddah-King Abdulaziz International Airport, Saudi Arabia	Severe weather, crew error
Flight 643	January 8, 2003	Avro RJ-100	Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey	75/80	Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey	CFIT, pilot error
Flight 1476	October 3, 2006	Boeing 737-4Y0	Greek air space	0/113	Istanbul-Atatürk International Airport, Turkey	Hijacking
Flight 1951	February 25, 2009	Boeing 737-800	North of the Polderbaan runway (18R/36L)	9/135	Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands	Stalled while landing at 400 ft due to faulty radio altimeter
Flight 726	March 3, 2015	Airbus A330-300	Tribhuvan International Airport, Nepal	0/238	Kathmandu, Nepal	Nose gear collapsed
Flight 1878	April 25, 2015	Airbus A320-200	Istanbul-Atatürk International Airport, Turkey	0/102	Istanbul-Atatürk International Airport, Turkey	Hard landing, possibly due to wake turbulence from another aircraft
Flight 6491	January 16, 2017	Boeing 747-412F	Manas International Airport, Kyrgystan	4/4 (35 on ground)	Istanbul-Atatürk International Airport, Turkey	CFIT due to false ILS capture