1989 shootdown of the General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre aircraft
Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander
From Adana Şakirpaşa Airport (ADA) to Adana Şakirpaşa Airport (ADA)
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
- 5 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- 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
- Government
Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander
- Aircraft type
- Britten Norman BN-2
- 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
- TC-KUN
- Onboard fatalities
- 5
- Route
- From Adana Şakirpaşa Airport (ADA)To Adana Şakirpaşa Airport (ADA)
Approximate · Estimated position: Antakya, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
On 20 October 1989, a Britten-Norman BN-2A-3 Islander aircraft belonging to the Turkish General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre was shot down by the Syrian Air Force while carrying out cadastral work on the Syrian border. All five people on board were killed as a result of the incident.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Turkish Wikipedia article “1989 Tapu Kadastro Genel Müdürlüğü uçağının düşürülmesi” (revision 35962436, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Turkish Wikipedia article: 1989 Tapu Kadastro Genel Müdürlüğü uçağının düşürülmesi
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 35962436 · 2025-09-02 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q108129198
- 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
- tr Wikipedia article "1989 Tapu Kadastro Genel Müdürlüğü uçağının düşürülmesi" (page 3061967, revision 35962436), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- 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 is a government agency according to Wikidata
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Turkish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.