Trainer plane crash kills two in Turkey’s Bursa

A single-engine aircraft crashed into a residential district in Turkey’s northwestern town of Bursa, killing the flight instructor and scholar but inflicting no other accidents, the neighborhood governor stated.

Television pics showed orange flames and thick plumes of smoke growing over a residential road within the metropolis of extra than two million people, with large crowds of onlookers looking at firefighters’ work to douse the flames.

The plane appeared to land in the middle of the road, between two rows of houses, damaging several parked cars.

Bursa governor Yakup Canbolat said the flight instructor and student pilot were both killed.

“According to preliminary findings, there were no other injuries,” the Anadolu state news agency quoted Canbolat as saying.

The 2002 model plane crashed shortly after taking off from the local airport, apparently “for technical motives”, the governor stated.