@ahmed.london2023: A Turkish Airlines pilot has died after becoming ill on his own flight from Seattle on the north-west coast of the United States to Istanbul in Turkey. Captain Ilcehin Pehlivan, 59, collapsed mid-air and a second pilot and co-pilot took over the controls, an airline spokesman said on X. "When first aid to our captain on the plane was unsuccessful, the cockpit crew... decided to make an emergency landing, but he died before landing," Yahya Ustun explained. The Airbus A350 plane landed in New York and plans were then made to fly the passengers on to Turkey from there, he added. Flight TK204 took off from Seattle shortly after 19:00 Pacific Time on Tuesday evening. The pilot appears to have got into trouble over the Canadian territory of Nunavut, before his colleagues took over and headed for John F Kennedy airport. The plane landed in New York about eight hours after leaving Seattle.

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Thursday 10 October 2024 18:12:56 GMT