🇹🇷❗️Turkish Airlines flight makes emergency landing at JFK, NYC after pilot collapses and dies in flight.
A Turkish Airlines flight inboud to Istanbul made an emegency landing in New York after its captian, 59 year old İlçehin Pehlivan collapsed and passex away mid flight.
The flight was taken under control by the co-pilot & another pilot on crew and safely landed in New York. The flight took off from Seattle.
The cause of death is said to be cardiac arrest, the pilot could not be revived from initial emergency first aid and eventually did not survive till the landing.
Captian Pehlivan has flown with TA since 2007 and recently passed the medical test in March 2024.
A Turkish Airlines flight inboud to Istanbul made an emegency landing in New York after its captian, 59 year old İlçehin Pehlivan collapsed and passex away mid flight.
The flight was taken under control by the co-pilot & another pilot on crew and safely landed in New York. The flight took off from Seattle.
The cause of death is said to be cardiac arrest, the pilot could not be revived from initial emergency first aid and eventually did not survive till the landing.
Captian Pehlivan has flown with TA since 2007 and recently passed the medical test in March 2024.