2001 Turkish Air Force CASA CN 235 crash
CASA/IPTN CN-235
From Diyarbakır, Turkey 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
- 34 · all aircraft and ground
- 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
- 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
- Military
CASA/IPTN CN-235
- Aircraft type
- Casa/iptn CN-235
- 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
- Unknown
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 34
- Route
- From Diyarbakır, TurkeyTo not recorded
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The 2001 Turkish Air Force CASA CN 235 crash was the accident that occurred on 16 May 2001 when a twin-engine CASA CN 235 light transport aircraft belonging to the Air Group of the General Staff Special Forces Command, travelling from Diyarbakır to Ankara, crashed near Malatya with 34 soldiers on board.
Crash
On 16 May 2001 at 12:50, the military transport aircraft, under the command and control of Army Pilot Captain Yılmaz Tekgül and Army Pilot First Lieutenant Mahir Turan, took off from the 2nd Air Force Command in Diyarbakır bound for Ankara. 25 minutes after take-off, at 13:15, while flying at an altitude of 5,600 metres and at a speed of 444 km per hour, the aircraft suffered a control failure. It contacted Erhaç Air Base and requested permission for a forced landing. However, the CN 235 aircraft, having gone completely out of control, crashed onto terrain between the villages of Güzyurdu and Yağmurlu in the Akçadağ District of Malatya.
1 major, 3 captains, 3 first lieutenants, 16 non-commissioned officers, 1 specialist sergeant and 10 privates lost their lives in the crash. On board this aircraft, which belonged to the Air Group of the General Staff Special Forces Command, were members of the Turkish Armed Forces Special Forces Command known as the 'Maroon Berets', attached to the command, and soldiers of the Natural Disasters Rescue (Military AKUT) team.
The crash was the second accident in Turkey of the same aircraft model, after the accident in Kayseri on 19 January 2001 in which 3 people lost their lives.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Turkish Wikipedia article “2001 Türk Hava Kuvvetleri CASA CN 235 kazası” (revision 36485739, 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: 2001 Türk Hava Kuvvetleri CASA CN 235 kazası
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 36485739 · 2025-12-06 · 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 "2001 Türk Hava Kuvvetleri CASA CN 235 kazası" (page 4568992, revision 36485739), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- 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)
- Operation
- armed force named in the article title
- 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.