Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193
Boeing 737-86J · Runway overrun due to pilot error and ATC error
From Adnan Menderes International Airport (ADB) to Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (SAW)
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA20RA069
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · Ulaştırma ve Altyapı Bakanlığı official statement, 5 Mar 2022
- Event fatalities
- 3 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 183
- Survivors
- 180
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 179
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Boeing 737-86J
- Flight
- PC2193
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 737
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- TC-IZK
- Operator
- Pegasus Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 3
- Route
- From Adnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)To Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (SAW)
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing · landing roll
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Runway excursion
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Action/decision
- Environmental issues › Operating environment
- Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from İzmir to Istanbul in Turkey operated by Pegasus Airlines. On 5 February 2020, the Boeing 737-800 operating the route skidded off the runway while landing at Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, Turkey. Three people were killed, 179 people were injured, and the aircraft was destroyed. This was the first fatal accident in the airline's history. The accident came less than a month after another Pegasus Airlines accident involving a Boeing 737 skidding off the runway at the same airport.
Accident
Flight 2193 operated within Turkey from İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport, İzmir, to Istanbul without incident. At approximately 18:30 local time, the plane attempted to land at Sabiha Gökçen in Istanbul in heavy rain and strong tailwinds. A thunderstorm with strong wind gusts was passing through the area at the time of the accident. Two other aircraft aborted their landing attempts at the same airport shortly before Flight 2193 landed.
After what Turkey's transport minister described as a "rough landing," the aircraft failed to decelerate. It skidded off the east end of the runway. The aircraft hit ILS antennas and a small building before it fell 30 m down an embankment, impacting with a force that survivors described as like an explosion. The aircraft broke into three sections, with the forward section of the fuselage especially damaged during the incident. Passengers escaped the plane via gaps between the fuselage sections. A fire broke out, and was later extinguished by firefighters.
In the early hours of 6 February 2020, Turkey's health minister said three passengers were killed and 179 people were taken to local hospitals with injuries. 12 children were believed to be on board the plane, according to reports from the Turkish media. The pilots received treatment in the hospital, before they were taken to a police station to provide their statements.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The CEO of Pegasus Airlines, Mehmet T. Nane, stated that they had recovered the plane's black boxes, and had begun extracting the data inside. A preliminary report indicated that high tailwinds were present upon landing, and that the pilots, being unaware of this, may have ceased braking efforts prematurely.
After the incident some former employees from the airlines stated that the airlines would prioritize sales over safety, often forcing them to work more hours than legally permitted, and firing them without reason, sometimes without giving severance. Flights would spend less than 20 minutes on the ground and exceed legal limits in the skies, performing hasty safety checks and compromising on hygiene. A former technician called the CEO's press statement after the crash "crocodile tears".
On 26 December 2020, the final report into the accident was, instead of being published, shared among officials due to the fact that the Turkish Accident Investigation committee was then defunct. The final report stated that the accident was caused by pilot error and ATC error, compounded by windshear on landing. The pilots were at fault by the fact that they failed to go around before it was too late. The controller was faulted for not giving the pilots sufficient weather information, and all of this being complicated by windshear.
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NTSB narrative
The government of Turkey has notified the NTSB of an accident involving a BOEING 737 airplane that occurred on February 05, 2020. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the government of Turkey's investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13.
All investigative information will be released by the government of Turkey.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
Wikipedia article: Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193
- Article
- Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193
- Revision
- 1374891866 · 2026-09-14 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q84428052
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record DCA20RA069
- Event ID
- 20200205X32547
- Case number
- DCA20RA069
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193" (page 63031568, revision 1374891866); merged with NTSB case DCA20RA069 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date; matches the Ulaştırma ve Altyapı Bakanlığı, Ulaşım Emniyeti İnceleme Merkezi Başkanlığı (Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, Transport Safety Investigation Center), Türkiye official statement
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record DCA20RA069
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities; matches the Ulaştırma ve Altyapı Bakanlığı, Ulaşım Emniyeti İnceleme Merkezi Başkanlığı (Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, Transport Safety Investigation Center), Türkiye official statement
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (3)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193" and NTSB case DCA20RA069, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- Checked against the Ulaştırma ve Altyapı Bakanlığı, Ulaşım Emniyeti İnceleme Merkezi Başkanlığı (Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, Transport Safety Investigation Center), Türkiye official statement (2022-03-05) on 2026-09-18. The report states the same date, fatalities, registration and destination. Not checked: place, crash-site coordinates, flight number, aircraft type, operator, departure, damage, type of operation and ground fatalities.