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Accident | |
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Date | 26 May 2003 |
Summary | Controlled flight into terrain due to poor visibility |
Site | Maçka, Trabzon |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Yakovlev Yak-42 |
Operator | Ukrainian-Mediterranean Airlines |
Registration | UR-42352 |
Flight origin | Manas International Airport Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan |
Stopover | Trabzon Airport, Trabzon, Turkey |
Destination | Zaragoza Airport, Zaragoza, Spain |
Occupants | 75 |
Passengers | 62 |
Crew | 11 |
Fatalities | 75 |
Survivors | 0 |
Ukrainian-Mediterranean Airlines Flight 4230 was a chartered international passenger flight, a Yakovlev Yak-42D operated by Ukrainian UM Airlines, which crashed in 2003.
Flying from Manas International Airport, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan to Zaragoza Airport, Spain, the Yak-42D tried to land at Trabzon Airport in Turkey to refuel on May 26, 2003, but, because of dense fog, it slammed into a mountain near Maçka, Trabzon.[1] All 13 crew and 62 passengers were killed. It remains the third-worst crash in Turkish aviation history.[2]