1950 Turkish State Airlines Ankara crash
Turkish Airlines Douglas C-47 Skytrain · Ankara, Turkey
From İstanbul Atatürk Airport (ISL) 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
- 15 · 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 C-47 Skytrain
- Aircraft type
- Douglas C-47
- 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-BAL
- Operator
- Turkish Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 15
- Route
- From İstanbul Atatürk Airport (ISL)To not recorded
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The 1950 Turkish State Airlines Ankara crash was the accident that occurred on 25 March 1950 when a Douglas C-47 passenger aircraft with tail number TC-BAL, belonging to Turkish State Airlines and operating a scheduled service between Yeşilköy Airport and Etimesgut Airport, Ankara, crashed while approaching the airport. It is regarded as the first accident in the history of Turkish civil aviation. In the crash, in addition to the 4-person crew consisting of captain Remzi Gökçen, co-pilot İlhami Uşaner, radio operator Affan Beken and flight engineer Ekrem Oysu, 5 Turkish, 1 Greek, 2 Bulgarian, 2 US and 1 British citizens lost their lives.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Turkish Wikipedia article “1950 Devlet Hava Yolları Ankara kazası” (revision 36479210, 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: 1950 Devlet Hava Yolları Ankara kazası
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 36479210 · 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 "1950 Devlet Hava Yolları Ankara kazası" (page 4571561, revision 36479210), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- 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.