“There were 20 crew members and passengers on board the Turkish military plane that crashed in Georgia.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Anadolu, “European Truth”
Details: The C-130 military transporter had 20 people on board, including crew members, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. The plane was headed from Azerbaijan and crashed near the Georgian-Azerbaijani border.
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“Our search and rescue operations continue in coordination with (Georgian) by national services,” said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Minister of Internal Affairs Ali Yerlikaya reported that he had a telephone conversation with his Georgian colleague Gela Geladze and he flew to the scene of the events.
Videos of witnesses of the plane crash have already reached the Georgian mass media. On it, you can see how the plane loses altitude, rotating in a “corkscrew”. On the left in the frame, a separate fragment falls, probably a tail.
Another video from a different angle shows that the plane fell apart – its central part with the wing falls in a “corkscrew”.
We will remind:
- In 2021, a military helicopter crashes in southern Turkey 11 soldiers diedincluding the corps commander. A few people survived.
- In August 2025, in Poland at the airshow rehearsal an F-16 fighter jet crashed, its pilot was killed.