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Plane crash in Turkey kills all 57 on board

China Daily | Updated: 2007-12-01 07:09

YESILYURT, Turkey: An Atlasjet plane crashed on a rocky mountain shortly before it was due to land in southwest Turkey early Friday, killing all 57 people on board. The cause was not immediately known.

Pieces of wreckage and personal belongings, including suitcases, clothing and magazines, were strewn across the hillside. Rescue workers in bright yellow jackets entered the plane's fuselage, which lay amid boulders and pine trees. Ambulances ferried the dead down a dirt track near the crash site, heading for morgues.

"The seats were detached and all over the place. Some of the seat belts were still around the bodies," said medic Mustafa Dagci, one of the first people to reach the site. "Some bodies were intact, others were in pieces."

Plane crash in Turkey kills all 57 on board

Plane crash in Turkey kills all 57 on board

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