BREAKING: A Turkish Airlines Boeing 777-300ER carrying 267 people was involved in a serious ground accident on June 12, 2026, at Antalya Airport, Türkiye, after the massive widebody jet reportedly took the wrong taxi route and its right wing struck an airport radar/lighting pole while heading toward its parking stand.
The aircraft, operating as Flight TK2430 from Istanbul to Antalya, suffered substantial damage when the wingtip clipped the pole. The structure collapsed and also made contact with the aircraft’s fuselage.
The aircraft followed a taxiway with a distance between the centreline and the base of the lighting tower of about 29 meters. The wing span of the aircraft is 64,80 meters (32,80 meters from the centreline of the taxiway).
Despite the frightening impact involving a jet with a nearly 65-meter wingspan, all 267 passengers and crew escaped safely, with zero injuries and zero fatalities. Emergency teams responded immediately as the aircraft was secured on the ground.
The Boeing 777-300ER (registration TC-LKD, built in 2009 and powered by GE90-115B engines) remains grounded while engineers inspect the damage.
Investigators are now examining how the aircraft entered a taxiway where the clearance between the centerline and the pole was insufficient for a Boeing 777’s enormous wingspan.