1988 Talia Airways Boeing 727 crash
On February 27, 1988, a Talia Airways passenger flight operated by a Boeing 727-200 with registration TC-AKD on behalf of JAT, crashed into the Kyrenian mountain range on approach to Northern Cyprus on 27 February 1988. All 15 occupants on board the aircraft died in the crash and fire that followed. Flight and aircraft The Talia Airways aircraft was on a flight from Istanbul's Atatürk Airport to Ercan International Airport in Northern Cyprus. It was running a near-empty flight to collect 160 passengers to transport them back to Finland. The airframe was a Boeing 727-200 which had been built in 1974. The flight was lightly loaded with thirteen crew and two passengers, all of whom died in the crash. Seven of the crew were Yugoslavian, two of the stewardesses were British, and the rest of the crew were from Turkey. The two passengers were a senior manager at Talia Airways and his wife. The aircraft belonged to a Yugoslavian airline company (JAT), and was on hire to Talia Airways. Accident As the flight approached Cyprus from the north, air traffic control informed the pilot to approach using the VOR at , but the pilot descended the aircraft to . The