Turkish Airlines Flight 634 was a Turkish Airlines domestic scheduled flight from Atatürk Airport Istanbul to Diyarbakır Airport in Turkey. On 8 January 2003 it was operated by TC-THG using an Avro RJ100, which crashed in extensive fog during its final approach to land. All of the five crew and seventy of the seventy-five passengers lost their lives, five passengers survived with serious injuries.
Having left Istanbul at 18:35 EET (16:35 UTC) for...
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Turkish Airlines Flight 634 was a Turkish Airlines domestic scheduled flight from Atatürk Airport Istanbul to Diyarbakır Airport in Turkey. On 8 January 2003 it was operated by TC-THG using an Avro RJ100, which crashed in extensive fog during its final approach to land. All of the five crew and seventy of the seventy-five passengers lost their lives, five passengers survived with serious injuries.
Having left Istanbul at 18:35 EET (16:35 UTC) for the nearly two-hour flight to Diyarbakır in south-eastern Turkey, the pilots made en route navigation planning to execute a missed approach and alternate airport diversion if necessary in addition to the standard VOR-DME approach at a distance of around 70 nmi (130 km) from the airport before contacting the air traffic control.
TK 634 reported to the airport's approach control at a distance of 8 nmi (15 km) that it had reached the initial approach fix (IAF). The control tower instructed the aircraft to continue the approach and to report when...
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