Istanbul plane crash: 'many more could have died'

The Istanbul plane crash that left three people dead could have been a much greater disaster that killed everyone on board, a leading aviation expert said on Thursday. The Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737 skidded off the runway at Sabiha Gokcen airport on Wednesday evening, breaking apart and plunging into a ditch while landing in bad weather. As well as the three fatalities, all the remaining 174 passengers and six crew were injured in the crash, which left the plane split into three sections. “Many more people could have died, this was a very close call,” said Haluk Kul, an aircraft engineer and faculty member at Istanbul’s Gelsim University. “We are very lucky there wasn’t a massive fire...