The Boeing 737-800 airplane, which skidded off the runway throughout touchdown at Trabzon Airport in northern Türkiye 5 years in the past, has discovered a brand new function as a novel pide (Turkish flatbread) restaurant.
The retired airplane is now a pide salon on the Black Sea coast at Yomra Beach and has welcomed the primary guests onboard.
Passengers who skilled the terrifying moments in the course of the incident reunited as they turned the primary company of the reworked “airplane pide salon.”
Seated at tables positioned within the space the place their seats as soon as had been, they loved their pide meals, Demirören News Agency (DHA) reported on Wednesday.
The airplane was arriving from the capital Ankara to Trabzon on Jan. 13, 2018, when the pilots misplaced management throughout touchdown. The airplane was buried in mud, simply 25 meters (82 toes) away from the ocean, on the facet of a cliff. None of the 162 passengers or six crew members had been injured within the crash.
The airplane, which was retired and faraway from its location after 20 hours of labor by a group of 100 individuals with 500-ton cranes, was taken to the Yomra district by truck the place it was designated to be transformed right into a pita bread restaurant after technical inspections.
After remaining idle within the district for some time, the airplane was redesigned and reworked right into a pide salon by three buyers to whom it was allotted.
Following the completion of the roughly TL 5 million (round $212,320) redesign and mandatory environmental issues, the airplane started serving prospects as a restaurant.
One of the previous passengers Mensur Turhal, 55, who lived by the traumatic expertise recalled the occasion in January 2018, noting he was along with his son on board the airplane and had jumped out from the airplane’s door and fell towards the ocean.
“I managed to get out via my own efforts. We were trapped inside the plane for about 40 minutes after the accident. There was a smell of fuel inside the aircraft. We were scared, thinking we will burn. If someone had ignited a fire inside, we would have exploded like a bomb. We were face-to-face with death,” he mentioned.
“When I returned to this plane, the screams of the children on that plane echoed in my ears. Everyone was worried about their lives,” Turhal recalled.
Another passenger, Evren Murat Öztekin famous that the traumatic reminiscence of the concern of loss of life skilled on the airplane is one thing that one can’t recover from for a few years.
Recalling the scary moments in the course of the touchdown, Öztekin mentioned that he tried to exit the airplane by opening the emergency doorways.
“I acquired on the wing of the airplane but it surely was unimaginable to leap down. I acquired again within the airplane once more. There was a really sturdy odor of gasoline inside. The airplane was on the slope. Everyone had fallen towards the nostril of the airplane. What occurred was actually horrible. We thought the airplane would catch hearth and we might burn to loss of life. Normally, a spot during which we skilled the concern of loss of life wouldn’t be appropriate for having fun with pide (pita) now. But this implies life goes on. We should be hopeful,” he mentioned.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
