1957 Turkish Air Force F-84 Thunderjet crash
Republic F-84G Thunderjet · Crashed into a housing block in the city center of Bursa. 25 houses burned down and killed 23 people
From Balıkesir Airport (BZI) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- 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
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
- Military
Republic F-84G Thunderjet
- Aircraft type
- Republic F-84
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- 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
- 51-11176
- Operator
- Turkish Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From Balıkesir Airport (BZI)To not recorded
Approximate · Estimated position: Bursa, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
On 25 July 1957, a Republic F-84G Thunderjet operated by the Turkish Air Force crashed in the city center of Bursa in northwestern Turkey. Up to twenty-nine people died, sixteen people were injured and twenty-five houses burned down.
Flight and crash
A Republic F-84G Thunderjet (registration number 51-11176) of the Turkish Air Force departed from Balıkesir Airport on 25 July 1957. Inside were a pilot and co-pilot who were doing a training flight. After a failure there was an explosion. The pilot escaped at a low altitude with his ejection seat, but his parachute did’t open. Without the pilot, the burning jet fighter flew on and crashed into a housing block in the city center of Bursa and exploded.
Twenty-five houses, shops and hotels caught fire, four of which burned down completely. Rescue workers saved the wounded and took the bodies from the burning houses. It took several hours before the fires were extinguished.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 1957 Turkish Air Force F-84 Thunderjet crash
- Revision
- 1351957562 · 2026-05-01 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q123221182
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "1957 Turkish Air Force F-84 Thunderjet crash" (page 74168068, revision 1351957562)
- Date
- Wikipedia article: the date in its opening sentence (the infobox gives none to the day)
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.
- The Wikipedia infobox gives the ground fatalities as a range or estimate rather than a number, so the total is not stated here.