Turkish Airlines: Timeline

1974   A Turkish Airlines DC-10 travelling from Paris to London crashes in a wood near Paris, killing all 346 aboard.

1998   A man tries to hijack a Turkish Airlines passenger plane, claiming that he has a bomb Bomb

A bomb is an explosive device that generates and releases its energy very rapidly as an explosion [i] ... 

 in his teddy bear; passengers disapprove and apprehend him.

1998   While en route from Adana to Ankara Ankara

Ankara is the capital [i] of Turkey [i] and the country's second largest city [i] ... 

, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant, who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland Switzerland

Switzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked [i] Alpine country [i] in Central Europe [i] ... 

. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricks the hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgaria Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a country in Southeastern Europe [i]. ... 

n capital of Sofia Sofia

Sofia is the capital [i] and largest city of the Republic of Bulgaria [i], with a population of 1,20 ... 

 to refuel.