* 2003 – Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.

Regional airlines such as Turkish Airlines, Gulf Air, Indian Airlines, Pakistan International Airlines ( PIA ), Iranian Airlines, and others also make frequent stops at Kabul International Airport.

As of 2012, numerous domestic air carriers such as MIAT Mongolian Airlines, Eznis Airways, Aero Mongolia, Mongolian Airlines Group as well as international air carriers such as Aeroflot, Korean Air, Air China and Turkish Airlines are offering their scheduled services.

* 1974 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.

Turkish Airlines is an official sponsor of the club, as shown by a Boeing 737 Next Generation # 737-800 | Boeing 737 – 800 logojet seen here at Atatürk International Airport in April 2011.

* 1998 – While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland.

* 1976 – Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.

Turkish Air, Iran Air, Kamair, Ural Airlines, S7 Airlines and many other international airlines operate regular flights and weekly flights to Germany and Russia.

Turkish Airlines is the flag carrier airline of Turkey

Airlines from a number of nations also provide air services to fly in and out of the country, which includes Turkish Airlines, Gulf Air, Indian Airlines, Pakistan International Airlines ( PIA ) and others.

Several foreign airlines also serve Rinas Airport: Alitalia ( from Rome and Milan ), British Airways ( from London Gatwick Airport ), Austrian Airlines ( from Vienna ), Adria Airways ( Ljubljana ), Jat Airways ( Belgrade ), Lufthansa ( Munich ), Malev ( Budapest ), Olympic Air ( Athens ), Hemus Air ( Sofia ) and Turkish Airlines ( Istanbul ).

The largest of them, at Tashkent, is linked with European and Middle Eastern cities by direct flights of Aeroflot, Lufthansa, Transaero, and Turkish Airlines, and with New York and Los Angeles via connecting flights through Moscow.

* March 3 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981 travelling from Paris to London crashes in a woods near Paris, killing all 346 aboard.

* Turkish Airlines Flight 1951, an accident attributed to a malfunctioning radio altimeter

On 3 March 1974, Turkish Airlines Flight 981, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, crashed in a forest northeast of Paris, France.

On 3 March 1974 a Turkish Airlines DC10 jet Flight 981 crashed near Paris killing all 346 people on board.

It remains the deadliest aviation accident to occur on U. S. soil, as well as the second deadliest involving a DC-10, after Turkish Airlines Flight 981.

On 3 March 1974, Turkish Airlines Flight 981, in an event known as the " Ermenonville air disaster ", crashed in Ermenonville forest after take-off from Orly on a flight to London's Heathrow Airport when an improperly closed cargo door burst open.

* January 16 – The Turkish Airlines Boeing 727-2F2 Afyon, operating as Flight 158, lands short of the runway in driving snow at Esenboğa International Airport in Ankara, Turkey.

Turkish Airlines Flight 981 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 that crashed outside Paris on March 3, 1974, killing all 346 people on board, the highest-ever death-count of any single plane crash with no survivors.

Just after Flight 981 passed over the town of Meaux, controllers picked up a distorted transmission from the plane ; the aircraft's pressurization and overspeed warnings were heard over the pilots ' words in Turkish, including the co-pilot saying " the fuselage has burst.

In 1974 Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashed in the Ermenonville Forest in Fontaine-Chaalis, Oise, near Ermenonville.

On 15 August 1915, during the Battle of Gallipoli, a Short S. 184 was the first aircraft to attack a ship with a live torpedo, when flying from HMS Ben-my-Chree, piloted by Flight Commander Charles Edmonds, it hit a Turkish supply ship in the Dardanelles.

* The right of Greece to exercise flight control over Turkish military flight activities within the international parts of the Aegean, based on conflicting interpretations of the rules about Flight Information Regions ( FIR ) set by the ICAO.

* Turkish Airlines Flight 981

Royal Naval Air Service Flight Commander Charles Edmonds becomes the first pilot to attack a ship with an air-launched torpedo, torpedoing a 5, 000-gross-register-ton Turkish supply ship during the Dardanelles Campaign.

Despite corrective measures to improve the door-locking mechanism, a similar failure aboard another DC-10 will cause the disastrous crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 981.

* March 3 – The Turkish Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 Ankara, operating as Flight 981, crashes into the Ermenonville Forest forest and the commune of Fontaine-Chaalis, France, after a cargo door blows off, causing damage which cuts control cables.

* January 30 – While the Turkish Airlines Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship Bursa, operating as Flight 345, is on approach to Istanbul Yeşilköy Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, the runway goes dark when the airport suffers a power failure.

* September 19 – During a night approach to a landing at Antalya Airport in Antalya, Turkey, with the captain out of the cockpit, the first officer of Turkish Airlines Boeing 727-2F2 Antalya, operating as Flight 452, mistakes a long straight highway filled with truck traffic north of Isparta for the runway at Antalya, which is 97 km ( 60 mi ) away to the south-southeast.

* December 29 – The Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-4Y0 Mersin, operating as Flight 278, crashes in driving snow while on approach to Van Ferit Melen Airport in Van, Turkey, killing 57 of the 76 people on board.

* April 7 – Flying in bad weather, the Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-4Q8 Trakya, operating as Flight 5904, a repositioning flight with no passengers aboard, crashes near Hamdilli in the Ceyhan district of Adana Province, Turkey, killing the entire crew of six.

* 8 January – The Turkish Airlines Avro RJ100 Konya, operating as Flight 634, crashes in thick fog while on final approach to land at Diyarbakır Airport in Diyarbakır, Turkey.

At the time, the incident was the second deadliest single aircraft disaster in history, after Turkish Airlines Flight 981.

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It was also the third deadliest aircraft disaster overall, after the Tenerife airport disaster of 1977 and Turkish Airlines Flight 981.