Turkey suspends C-130 flights after fatal plane crash kills 20

Turkey has temporarily grounded its C-130 military cargo planes as a precaution, the Defence Ministry announced Thursday, November 13, following a crash in Georgia that claimed the lives of all 20 military personnel on board.

The cargo plane was flying from Ganja, Azerbaijan to Turkey when it crashed in Georgia’s



Sighnaghi municipality, close to the Azerbaijani border, on Tuesday, November 11. The cause of the crash is being investigated.

The military personnel were part of a unit responsible for the maintenance and repair of Turkish F-16 jets that had flown to Azerbaijan to participate in that country’s Victory Day celebrations.