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Article: 5th LD: Plane with 54 people aboard crashes in Turkey, wreckage found
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- November 30, 2007
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5th LD: Plane with 54 people aboard crashes in Turkey, wreckage
found
ANKARA, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- A Turkish passenger plane with 54
people aboard crashed in central Turkey on Friday, local NTV
reported.
The wreckage of the plane has been found in a mountainous part of
southern Turkey, said the report.
Earlier, airline company officials said there were 56 people
aboard the plane that was missing.
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 ...