Turkiye confirms all 20 soldiers died in its army plane crash in Georgia

A Turkish mishap probe has begun its enactment astatine the clang tract successful coordination with Georgian authorities.

All 20 unit connected committee a Turkish C-130 subject cargo craft that crashed successful Georgia adjacent to its borderline with Azerbaijan person died, the Turkish Defence Ministry says, arsenic investigators analyse the origin of the mishap astatine the site.

The confirmation came connected Wednesday, a time aft the level crashed aft taking disconnected from the adjacent Azerbaijani metropolis of Ganja.

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“Our heroic comrades-in-arms were martyred,” Defence Minister Yasar Guler said successful a societal media post, alongside photographs of the deceased successful their uniforms.

The ministry said a Turkish mishap investigation, successful coordination with Georgian authorities, had begun inspecting the wreckage astatine the clang tract successful the Sighnaghi municipality of Georgia’s Kakheti territory aboriginal connected Wednesday.

Debris astatine the tract of a Turkish subject cargo level clang successful Georgia’s Sighnaghi municipality [Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP Photo]

The crash, Turkiye’s deadliest subject incidental since 2020, happened astir 5km (3.1 miles) from the Georgian-Azerbaijani border.

Georgia’s Sakaeronavigatsia aerial postulation power work said the craft disappeared from radar soon aft entering the country’s airspace, sending nary distress awesome anterior to the crash.

Dramatic footage published by Azerbaijani media appeared to amusement the craft sending a ample unreality of achromatic fume into the entity aft it crashed, leaving debris strewn crossed the ground.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said helium was “deeply saddened” by the clang and expressed his condolences.

The leaders of Azerbaijan and Georgia, on with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, person conveyed condolences implicit the crash, portion the United States ambassador to Turkiye, Tom Barrack, besides expressed his country’s solidarity.

US steadfast Lockheed Martin, the shaper of the C-130 Hercules, besides expressed its condolences and said it was committed to assisting the probe successful immoderate mode required.

The C-130 is simply a four-engine, turboprop transport craft that is wide utilized by militaries astir the satellite to transportation personnel, cargo and different equipment.