Turkish Airlines pilot dies while flying plane in US
A Turkish Airlines flight made an emergency landing in New York early Wednesday after the captain lost consciousness midflight and died, an airline spokesman said in a statement.
Yahya Ustun, senior vice president for media relations, said on X that Ilcehin Pehlivan, 59, did not respond to medical intervention onboard the Airbus 350 scheduled to fly from Seattle to Istanbul. There was a co-pilot in the cockpit.
The flight was over northern Canada before it turned to the south, making a four-hour flight to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, according to data from tracking site Flightradar24.
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