1959 Turkish Airlines Gatwick Crash - Crew and Passengers

Crew and Passengers

The eight crew consisted of three pilots, one navigator, one mechanic and three flight attendants, of whom five lost their lives.

• Münir Ozbek, Captain (38)- (in command) – killed
• Lütfi Biberoglu, Captain (35) – (second pilot) – killed
• Sabri Kazmaoglu, Captain (35) – (reserve pilot) – killed
• Gündüz Tezel, Captain (42) – (navigator) – killed
• Türkay Erkay – (steward) – seriously injured
• Gönül Uygur – (stewardess) – killed
• Yurdanur Yelkovan – (stewardess) – seriously injured
• Kemal Itık – (supernumerary mechanic) – uninjured

There were officially sixteen passengers on board, of which nine died at the accident. However, the list of names that appeared in the news included a total of seventeen passengers.

• Adnan Menderes (Prime minister) – uninjured
• Server Somuncuoğlu (Press, Media and Tourism Minister) – killed
• Muzaffer Ersü (Private secretary of Prime minister) – killed
• Şefik Fenmen (Deputy private secretary of Prime minister) – light injured
• Melih Esenbel (Secretary General of Foreign Ministry) – light injured
• İlhan Savut (Head of 2nd Department of Foreign Ministry) – killed
• Mehmet Ali Görmüş (Private secretary of Press, Media and Tourism Minister) – killed
• Sedat Görmüş (Secretary of Foreign Minister) – killed
• Güner Türkmen (Secretary of Foreign Minister) – killed
• Arif Demirer (Deputy of Afyonkarahisar Province) – injured
• Emin Kalafat (Deputy of Çanakkale Province) – injured
• Kemal Zeytinoğlu (Deputy of Eskişehir Province, former Public Works Minister) – killed
• Rıfat Kadıoğlu (Deputy of Sakarya Province) – injured
• Abdullah Parla (General Manager of Turkish Airlines) – killed
• Şerif Arzık (General Manager of Anadolu News Agency) – killed
• Burhan Tan (Photo reporter of Newspaper Akşam) – killed
• Kazım Nefes (Police bodyguard) – injured