<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_278" id="mw0A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Turkish Airlines Flight 278">Turkish Airlines Flight 278</a> (a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_Classic" id="mw0Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Boeing 737 Classic">Boeing 737-400</a>) crashes on approach to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Ferit_Melen_Airport" id="mw0g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Van Ferit Melen Airport">Van Ferit Melen Airport</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van,_Turkey" id="mw0w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Van, Turkey">Van, Turkey</a>, killing 57 of the 76 people on board.<sup about="#mwt133" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-24"}}' id="cite_ref-24" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_29#cite_note-24" id="mw1A" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 24;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw1Q">[24]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-24"><cite about="#mwt130" class="citation web cs1" id="mwCL0">Ranter, Harro. <a class="external text" href="https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19941229-0" id="mwCL4" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-4Y0 TC-JES Van Airport (VAN)"</a>. <i id="mwCL8">aviation-safety.net</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCMA">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCME">21 August</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt130" class="Z3988" id="mwCMI" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=aviation-safety.net&amp;rft.atitle=ASN+Aircraft+accident+Boeing+737-4Y0+TC-JES+Van+Airport+%28VAN%29&amp;rft.aulast=Ranter&amp;rft.aufirst=Harro&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Faviation-safety.net%2Fdatabase%2Frecord.php%3Fid%3D19941229-0&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+29"></span></span>