The 1961 Turkish Airlines Ankara crash occurred on September 23, 1961 at 18:02 local time (16:02 UTC) when a Turkish Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship 100 airliner, registration TC-TAY, on a scheduled international flight from Nicosia Airport (NIC) in Cyprus via Adana Airport (ADA/LTAF), Turkey to Esenboğa Airport (ESB/LTAC) in Ankara, flew into the hill Karanlıktepe in Ankara Province on approach to landing.[2]