{"id":51603,"date":"2024-10-09T17:12:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T17:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/turkish-airlines-pilot-dies-mid-flight\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T17:07:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T17:07:01","slug":"turkish-airlines-pilot-dies-mid-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/turkish-airlines-pilot-dies-mid-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Airlines pilot dies mid-flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The airline confirmed the incident in a statement on Wednesday morning, identifying the deceased pilot as 59-year-old Ilcehin Pehlivan. <\/p>\n<p>Airline spokesperson Yahya Ustun stated that Pehlivan fainted, prompting the crew of the  TK204 flight to decide on an emergency landing while attempting to revive him. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Pehlivan died before the plane could land in New York City. The cause of death is yet to be revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Pehlivan had worked with Turkish Airlines since 2007. The spokesperson explained that the pilot passed a medical examination in March indicating he had no health issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A periodic health examination was carried out on March 8, 2024, at the Aviation Medical Center authorized by the General Directorate of Civil Aviation, and no health problem was detected that would prevent him from working,&#8221; the spokesperson wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cAs the Turkish Airlines family, we wish God\u2019s mercy upon our captain and patience to his grieving family, all his colleagues, and loved ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-75711 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/960x0_1_.jpg\" alt=\"A Turkish Airlines spokesperson revealed that the pilot died before the plane could make an emergency landing in New York City after collapsing mid-flight.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Turkish Airlines plane flying from Seattle to Istanbul was forced to make an emergency landing in New York after one of its pilots collapsed mid-flight on Tuesday, October 8, 2024.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000075712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-51603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000075712,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/960x0_1_.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/960x0_1_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/960x0_1_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/960x0_1_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/960x0_1_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/960x0_1_.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000075712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51603"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=51603"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=51603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}