Today marks one year since the crash of a C-130 military transport aircraft belonging to the Turkish Air Force on the Azerbaijani-Georgian border.
Globalinfo.az, citing oxu.az, reports that on Nov. 11, 2025, the plane flying from Azerbaijan to Turkey crashed on Georgian territory, 5 kilometres from the Azerbaijani border.
Turkey’s Ministry of National Defence published the Air Force’s preliminary report on the incident on April 9 of the current year. The report said analyses of samples taken from the aircraft’s wreckage found no traces of explosive material either on the interior or on the exterior.
“Digital data recordings up to the moment of the crash show that everything was normal in the flight crew’s communications and in the aircraft’s systems, and no malfunction was detected. The incident happened suddenly; because the tail cone separated from the fuselage, the electrical and data cables of the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) were severed, and therefore no additional information that could shed light on the crash was found in the recording device,” the ministry’s report said.
Note that 20 servicemen died in the crash.
Names of the fallen servicemen:
1. Gökhan Korkmaz — pilot;
2. Serdar Uslu — Air Force officer;
3. Nihat İlgen — Air Force officer;
4. Cüneyt Kandemir — Air Force officer;
5. Emre Mercan — senior lieutenant of aircraft maintenance;
6. Nuri Özcan — senior sergeant of aircraft technical service;
7. Ümit İnce — Air Force officer;
8. Burak Özkan — Air Force officer;
9. Emrah Kuran — Air Force officer;
10. Hamdi Armağan Kaplan — Air Force officer;
11. Akın Karakuş — Air Force officer;
12. İlker Aykut — Chief of the Air Force General Staff;
13. Ramazan Yağız — Air Force officer;
14. Emre Altiok — Air Force officer;
15. Burak İbbiği — Air Force officer;
16. İlhan Ongan — senior sergeant of aircraft maintenance;
17. Berkay Karaca — Air Force officer;
18. Ahmet Yaşar Kuyucu — Air Force officer;
19. Cem Dolapcı — Air Force officer;
20. Emre Sayın — Air Force officer.
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