Woman falls 50ft to her death from aeroplane boarding bridge at Turkish airport

A woman plunged 50ft to her death from an aeroplane’s boarding bridge in front of horrified passengers at a Turkish airport in a suspected suicide.

Beyza Taskiran, 32, jumped from the plane’s passenger bellows and plunged to her death at the Adnan Menderes Airport in Izmir, Turkey, on Monday, local media report.

Taskiran, a marketing manager at an IT company in the Antalya province, jumped through a gap between the boarding bridge and the aircraft before fatally hitting the ground.

Beyza Taskiran, 32, jumped from the passenger bellows and fell through a gap between the bridge and the plane at the Adnan Menderes Airport in Izmir, Turkey, local media report

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The businesswoman was preparing to board the plane for a return flight to Antalya after attending a tourism fair in Izmir when she fell 50ft.

She reportedly jumped from the plane’s passenger boarding bridge that connects the apron to the aircraft and died when she hit the concrete floor below in a suspected suicide, reports Sabah.

Taskiran was having a heated argument before she fell to her death, local media report.

Taskiran, a marketing manager at an IT company in the Antalya province, plunged to her death in a suspected suicide on Monday

Police are analysing Taskiran’s phone records to determine who she was speaking to on the phone. 

Her body was taken to a morgue for autopsy, with the Turkish authorities launching an investigation into her death. That investigation is ongoing.

Adnan Menderes Airport is an international airport that serves Izmir and most of the surrounding province after it was opened in 1987. It serves over 10 million passengers a year.