Terrifying moment plane bursts into flames in Turkey as families flee after horror landing

Passengers person spoken astir their panic arsenic their vacation pitchy burst into flames successful Antalya, Turkey, amid panic and chaos connected committee arsenic the compartment filled with achromatic smoke

This is the terrifying infinitesimal a holiday pitchy bursts into flames portion landing successful fearfulness winds arsenic passengers began to "suffocate."

Those connected committee person spoken of their panic arsenic their vacation pitchy burst into flames successful Antalya, Turkey amid panic and chaos connected committee arsenic the compartment filled with achromatic smoke. There was a “stampede” to exit the stricken craft as flames swirled from ignited kerosene that had leaked onto the runway.

All 95 passengers and unit miraculously escaped by evacuation slides amid fears the Sukhoi Superjet 100 craft would explode. One study said the helping clipped the runway arsenic the Russian Azimuth Airlines craft swayed astir successful precocious winds.

There were besides reports that the jinxed Superjet’s autopilot failed connected attack and the manual landing was astatine excessively precocious a velocity connected the formation from Sochi to Antalya. Azimuth level occurrence subsister Evgeniya Lavrinenko - a TikTok influencer - said: “There was panic successful the cabin, radical started jumping up, trying to get their bags, putting them successful the aisle.

"And past a crisp flash successful each the windows showed that the occurrence had burst into flames. Smoke poured powerfully into the cabin. There was a crush, cipher fto anyone through. Everyone was trying to transportation their suitcases for immoderate reason. They wouldn't fto kids through, they wouldn't fto anyone through.”

One heroic rider is reported to person forced unfastened a level doorway aft a pistillate compartment unit subordinate was successful panic arsenic she was incapable to unfastened it. “We were sitting astir astatine the precise end, and determination was fume coming from behind,” said Evgeniya. And past idiosyncratic shouted that determination were evacuation slides astatine the backmost of the level - tally back.

“We ran back, and determination was adjacent much smoke, we started to suffocate. Then they archer america the opposite, tally forwards. I shouted to my kid to screen her look with a cloth truthful she could respire We ran forwards, and we were among the past to get out.

“You could spot the occurrence brigade had arrived, they were putting retired the fire. We came down connected this slide. My girl was first, I followed her, screaming each astir us. It was precise scary.”

She said: “We each ran to a field, due to the fact that we didn't cognize if the level would detonate oregon what would hap to it. My girl was crying, everyone was crying, but luckily everyone survived.”

The hose said: “On November 24, 2024, during landing of Azimuth Airlines formation A45051 Sochi-Antalya, a unsmooth landing occurred arsenic a effect of upwind shear. The commandant decided to evacuate via inflatable slides.”

Russian diplomats came to the airdrome to assistance passengers, immoderate who mislaid their passports connected the plane. They had to hold hours for their baggage. The passengers person threatened a people enactment suit against Azimuth Airlines.

Telegram transmission VChK-OGPU said its sources reported that “the autopilot of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 that caught occurrence successful Antalya failed first…. The level was approaching the landing successful Direct Mode (backup power system).

"During landing, the level exceeded the permissible speed, which is wherefore the touchdown with the runway was hard, and a plan mistake successful the determination of the rear landing cogwheel and substance tanks…..caused the fire. Miraculously, quality casualties were avoided. The level cannot beryllium restored.”

Another rider Sultan Sultanov said: "The level landed wrong, hard. I don't deliberation the upwind was the cause. It was conscionable a hard landing. I was sitting successful the front, and I ran….I opened the doorway and radical came out.

"It's bully that the firemen got present faster. Thanks to the Turks - the firemen arrived successful 30 seconds. And enactment retired the fire….. Thank God, everyone is live and well, that’s the astir important thing.”

This craft was damaged successful October resulting successful an exigency landing. The Superjet is Vladimir Putin’s favored task - and was intended arsenic a Russian abbreviated haul craft to situation Boeing and Airbus models. In 2012 it suffered a clang successful Indonesia, sidesplitting each 45 connected board. In 2019, a Superjet crashed landed successful Moscow aft being struck by lightning, sidesplitting 41 retired of 78 connected board. The Superjet has a estimation arsenic jinxed owed to repeated method and operational problems since its instauration successful 2011.