1954 Turkish State Airlines Adana crash
Turkish Airlines Douglas DC-3
From Adana Şakirpaşa Airport (ADA) 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
- 25 · 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
- 0
- 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
Douglas DC-3
- Aircraft type
- Douglas DC-3
- 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-ARK
- Operator
- Turkish Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 25
- Route
- From Adana Şakirpaşa Airport (ADA)To not recorded
Approximate · Estimated position: Adana, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The 1954 Turkish State Airlines Adana crash was the accident that occurred when a Douglas DC-3 aircraft with tail number TC-ARK, belonging to Turkish State Airlines and operating the Adana-Ankara service, crashed in Adana on 3 April 1954. The aircraft, which took off at 13:40 to go from Adana to Ankara, crashed 10 minutes after takeoff at the Kurttepe locality at the foot of the Taurus Mountains as a result of an engine failure. Parts of the aircraft were scattered over an area of 15 km². 25 people lost their lives in the accident, among them the Chairman of the Turkish Peasant Party and archaeologist Remzi Oğuz Arık and Istanbul deputy Salamon Adato.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Turkish Wikipedia article “1954 Devlet Hava Yolları Adana kazası” (revision 36479220, 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: 1954 Devlet Hava Yolları Adana kazası
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 36479220 · 2025-12-05 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- 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 "1954 Devlet Hava Yolları Adana kazası" (page 4559568, revision 36479220), 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 named as an airline in the infobox
- 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.