A flight from the private local airline Pegasus has been ruined by the embankment of the airstrip of the Istanbul Sabiha Gokçen airport this Wednesday afternoon. The plane, a Boeing 737-800 with 177 passengers on board, which came from the city of Izmir, was unable to complete the landing maneuver due to unknown causes, in the middle of heavy rain. Despite the accident, the transport minister, Cahit Turhan, has said that there are no dead, but injured.

According to Turkish media, all take-offs and landings planned in the Sabiha Gökçen, located on the Asian side of the city, have been canceled. The planes waiting to land on it have been diverted to the main airport, on the European side. Meanwhile, firefighters work to quell the flames set on the fuselage of the ship. Rescue teams continue to serve the victims. The Anatolian Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation to determine the reasons for the accident.

"Among the passengers there were 175 travelers, of which two were minors, and six crew members. Emergency services have come to the scene of the incident. There are no serious injuries. Those affected are being taken to hospitals," he said. Turhan to the CNN Türk chain. The Sabiha Gökçen is the base of Pegasus, the main private airline, which connects both national and international destinations.

A Pegasus Boeing 737-800 suffered a similar incident on January 7. According to the Flightglobal digital medium, the climatic conditions were also similar. On that occasion, flight PC747, which came from the Emirati city of Sharjah, went off the runway while it touched ground in the Sabiha Gökçen. Expert sources have sometimes stressed that the airstrip of the airfield has trouble evacuating water from the rain.

"After the descent, we have left the track and have gone to the embankment. I can not see anything, " says the fragment of one of the communications issued by the pilots after the event, published by the Turkish media Habertürk.

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