Description

On 25 February 2009, a Boeing 737-800 (TC-JGE) being operated by Turkish Airlines on an international passenger flight from Istanbul Ataturk to Amsterdam as TK1951 and making a ILS approach at destination in day VMC crashed on short final after the crew were unable to recover following an EGPWS PULL UP Warning before terrain impact occurred approximately 1,500 metres short of the intended landing runway. All three pilots, one member of the cabin crew and five of the 128 passengers were killed, 10 passengers and two cabin crew were seriously injured and 107 passengers and one of the cabin crew sustained minor injuries. Six passengers were uninjured.

The Accident Site. [Reproduced from the Official Report]

Editor's Note:

The Final Report of this very thorough Investigation is not presented in the standard format envisaged by Annex 13 at that time or since or in almost any way recognisably similar to this. Despite the relatively short main body of the report, factual information which would normally be expected to appear in the main body of the report appears in some of the 22 Appendices. There is also no meaningful summary for accident prevention purposes of the relative significance of the many contributory factors identified.

Investigation

An Investigation into the Accident was carried out by the Dutch Safety Board. All relevant data was recovered from the FDR and two hour CVR.