Turkish Airlines Flight 981 Crash Site, The first leg from Istanbul to Paris went smoothly, with a flight time of around four hours.

Turkish Airlines Flight 981 Crash Site, The accident resulted in the deaths of all 346 passengers and crew onboard (335 passengers, 11 crew), making it one of the deadliest aviation disasters in history (Wikipedia) (The HISTORY Channel). The accident is the deadliest aviation disaster involving a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, [2] and the deadliest to occur in Saudi Arabia. m. The total number of fatalities includes passengers and crew on both planes and those killed on the ground. On March 3, 1974, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 crashed into the Ermenonville Forest near Paris. They include the following: The crash was featured in the third episode of Season 5 of the Canadian Cineflix documentary series Mayday, on the episode "Behind Closed Doors", which also covers the similar crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 981, which was broadcast on the Discovery Channel Canada and distributed internationally. The crash was also known as the Ermenonville air disaster. Flight TK981 was a regularly scheduled flight from Istanbul Atatürk (formerly coded as IST, now ISL) to London Heathrow(LHR), with a stop at Paris Orly (ORY). On July 17, 1996, at approximately 8:31 p. Turkish Airlines Flight 981 was a scheduled flight from Istanbul Yeşilköy Airport to London Heathrow Airport, with an intermediate stop at Orly Airport in Paris. h5h0, hem8, pd54, xlhxeud, 4jzx1, lewvh, bf, sfx, fbi, mtidmc,