Turkish Airlines Flight

The 2009 crash of a Boeing jetliner operated by Turkish Airlines bears uncanny similarities to the crashes of two Boeing aircraft last year that left 346 people dead and forced the American aerospace titan to ground an entire fleet.

The General Directorate of Civil Aviation has prepared a draft guide on handling 17 abandoned planes at the Atatürk Airport, which was closed to commercial passenger flights on April 5.

The Istanbul Health Directorate has sent Turkish Airlines a letter asking for information on the passengers of a Bogota-Istanbul flight after one passenger was diagnosed with tuberculosis, Doğan News Agency reported on Feb. 22.

A Turkish Airlines flight en route to Basel from Istanbul has made an emergency landing in Italy’s Milan due to weather conditions, Doğan News Agency reported on Jan. 3.

A Turkish passenger plane on Thursday made an emergency landing at Khartoum airport after a report on bomb threat, airport authorities said, Xinhua reported.

A Miami-bound Turkish Airlines flight, which had taken off from Istanbul, made an emergency landing in a Canadian airport on Nov. 27 to attend to a sick passenger.

A Slovenian passenger flying with Turkish Airlines suffered a panic attack on board on Jan. 12, forcing the plane to return to Istanbul Atatürk Airport after he caused damage to the cabin and hit cabin crew and passengers.

Flying with his wife, Anton Cestnik was struck by a panic attack crisis as the plane was flying over Egyptian air space en route from Istanbul to Mombasa, Kenya.

Authorities arrested the hijacker of an Egyptian airliner that was diverted to Greek Cyprus on March 29, after the plane's passengers and crew were able to escape unharmed.