A Turkish Airlines flight bound for Istanbul from Seattle was forced to make an emergency landing in New York on Wednesday after the captain collapsed mid-air, an airline official said.
Pilot Ilcehin Pehlivan, 59, lost consciousness after Flight 204 took off from Seattle on Tuesday night. Turkish Airlines spokesperson Yahya Ustun said in a statement posted on X. He could not be revived despite medical intervention, following which a second pilot and a co-pilot took over the controls.
