The rescue of Turkish Airlines Flight 1123 - August 14th 2008

[kea001]

Here is another wild aviation story.


"On August 14th 2008 a Turkish Airlines Airbus A310-300, registration TC-JDA, was performing flight TK1123 from Istanbul (Turkey) to Lagos (Nigeria) with 196 passengers, but went missing while on approach to Lagos at around 10pm Lagos local time."

cont'd here:
http://avherald.com/h?article=40d2752c&opt=1

credit: Aviation Herald


Google map of area:
Lagos was the destination (right side of map)
Accra was location of ATC (left side of map)
Lome was eventual landing site (center of map)
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=lome&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=34.938697,90.351563&ie=UTF8&ll=6.122804,1.225491&spn=3.353081,5.646973&t=h&z=8

Some of the emails are equally amusing:


"By Ertugrul on Wednesday, Sep 24th 2008 08:43Z

I use Turkish Airlines ten times per month for domestic flights and there is no problem up to now. I know that maintenance is carried out carefully by experienced end trained stuffs. I can suggest you to use THY."

http://avherald.com/h?article=40b3462f&opt=1

[joeyb747]

All is well that ends well!