A Turkish Air Force C-130 military transport plane crashed in Georgia on Tuesday, the Turkish Defense Ministry has said.
The MOD later confirmed that all 20 personnel on board, including the crew, were killed.
The Georgian Interior Ministry said the aircraft took off from Azerbaijan and was flying back to Türkiye when it crashed in Sighnaghi Municipality, around 5km from the Azerbaijani-Georgian border.
Video from the scene shows the large plane spiraling into the ground.
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According to the news channel NTV, the plane arrived in Azerbaijan on Tuesday morning from the Turkish city of Trabzon on the Black Sea coast. It took off from Ganja at 1:20pm local time and disappeared from radar 27 minutes later, NTV reported.
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said his Georgian counterpart, Gela Geladze, arrived at the crash site. “I offer my condolences to our nation and their families,” Yerlikaya wrote on X.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said an operation to recover the wreckage is underway in coordination with Georgian officials.
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