Thirty people were killed today when their Moldovan plane crashed while trying to land in foggy conditions in Iraq, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said.
The Antonov-26 plane, which took off from the Turkish city of Adana this morning, had been carrying about 30 Turkish workers at the time, Turkey's state Anatolian news agency reported.
The Foreign Ministry official said the crash occurred near Balad, the main US military aviation hub in Iraq about 80 kilometres north of Baghdad.