(8 Jan 2003)
1. Various shots of grieving relatives at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport
2. Exterior of the airport
3. Various interior shots of the empty airport
4. Various shots of the departure board
5. Wide shot empty waiting area
6. Wide shot currency exchange booth
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Zafer Bayfal, Deputy General Manager, Turkish Airlines:
"The scheduled flight to Diyarbakir tonight has taken off at 6:45 and while airborne the visibility was OK to operate, at 4,500 metres and at the approach phase the visibility dropped down the 3,500 metres which was still an operational limit.The final approach phase was very close to approach light, and with unknown reasons the aircraft has contact with the ground. Officially we do not know yet what has caused this situation. Right after the contact with ground the aircraft caught fire and as you may know at Diyarbakir, the air force base facility, does cover all the rescue equipment and just after the accident the firefighting USQ team has arrived and six passengers survived. The crew, sorry to say, but they lost their lives. The total on board is 72 and 3 infants, (which makes) 75, and five crew, which total 80."
8. Various cutaway shots of Bayfal
9. Passenger manifesto
10. Various shots of a distraught relative being brought out of terminal and placed in ambulance
STORYLINE:
A Turkish Airlines flight crashed and split apart in flames as it landed short of a runway in heavy fog in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday, killing 74 of the 80 people on board.
The crash took place in the military section of the airport in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir.
There were six survivors, who were evacuated to nearby Diyarbakir hospital. There were no reports of any people injured on the ground. Doctors in the area were called to the city's main hospital to deal with the injured.
At Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, where the flight departed from, relatives of passengers on board the crashed plane comforted each other as they awaited news of the situation. One distraught relative collapsed and was stretchered to an ambulance for treatment.
Zafer Bayfal, Deputy General Manager, Turkish Airlines told reporters that the cause of the crash was still unknown but visibility was within operational limits when the aircraft departed.
"While airborne the visibility was ok to operate, at 4,500 metres and at the approach phase the visibility dropped down the 3,500 metres which still an operational limit," he said.
Diyarbakir is 850 miles (1,400 kilometres) southeast of Istanbul and 120 kilometres (75 miles) north of the Syrian border.
Turkey's prime minister Abdullah Gul said the military was dismissing the possibility of sabotage.
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