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Pilots Reportedly Reveal How Plane Nearly Skidded Into The Sea

ANKARA, Turkey - A Turkish media report says the pilots of a plane that skidded off the runway and down a slope toward the sea have told investigators that the plane's right engine experienced a sudden surge of speed that forced it to swerve to the left.

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A Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737 passenger plane is seen struck in mud on an embankment, a day after skidding off the airstrip, after landing at Trabzon's airport on the Black Sea coast on January 14, 2018. (credit: Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)

The Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-800, with 168 people onboard, went off the runway at Trabzon Airport, northern Turkey, late on Saturday, stopping at an acute angle only a few meters away from the Black Sea.

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A Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737 passenger plane is seen struck in mud on an embankment, a day after skidding off the airstrip, after landing at Trabzon's airport on the Black Sea coast on January 14, 2018. (credit: Dogan News Agency/AFP/Getty Images)

All passengers and crew were evacuated and no one was injured. The airline said in a statement that all those on board disembarked safely.

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