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Article: 3nd LD: Plane with 56 people aboard missing in Turkey
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 30, 2007
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3nd LD: Plane with 56 people aboard missing in Turkey
ANKARA, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- A Turkish plane with 56 people aboard
was missing in central Turkey, airline company officials said on
Friday.
CNN cited Tuncay Doganer, chief executive of the private airline
company AtlasJetair, as saying that there were 49 passengers and
seven crew on board.
The plane, heading for Isparta, disappeared from radar screens
shortly before it was due to land at the town about 150 km (90
miles) north of the Mediterranean resort of Antalya.
A Gulf Air passenger jet with 121 people on board made an
emergency landing at the Ataturk Airport in Turkey's largest city of
Istanbul due to technical problems on Nov. 21.
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