Wednesday: Two people react at Diyarbakir Airport after hearing about the Turkish Airlines crash there.
ISTANBUL, Turkey — A Turkish Airlines flight crashed Wednesday as it tried to land at an airport in southeastern Turkey, killing 72 people, Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu said.
The plane, which was on its way from Istanbul, crashed in the largely Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, the semiofficial Anatolia news agency reported. Private NTV television said the plane crashed in heavy fog.
NTV television quoted Aksu as saying that the plane carried 77 people and that there were only five survivors.
The RJ-100 passenger aircraft crashed in a military area near the airport, and soldiers were helping to evacuate the injured, one Turkish television network reported. The RJ-100 is a four-engine plane built by British Aerospace.
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