Passenger plane pilot DIES mid-flight, forcing jet to land in New York

A Turkish Airlines pilot died after collapsing mid-flight, forcing the Turkish national carrier to make an emergency landing in New York, the airline said on Wednesday.

The plane had taken off from the western US coastal city of Seattle on Tuesday evening, airline spokesman Yahya Ustun wrote on X, formerly .

'The pilot of our Airbus 350... flight TK204 from Seattle to Istanbul collapsed during the flight,' he wrote.

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