A businesswoman has died after falling 50ft from a boarding bridge at a Turkish airport in front of terrified passengers.
Beyza Taskiran, 32, is reported to have been in a heated discussion on her phone to a mystery person when she plunged to her death at the Adnan Menderes Airport in Izmir.
Beyza, who worked as a marketing manager at an IT company in Antalya, was allegedly returning to the 'Turquoise Coast' on a 10pm flight on Monday after attending a tourism fair in Izmir when the tragic incident happened.
According to reports, she fell through a gap between the boarding bridge and aircraft before hitting the tarmac below. She was pronounced dead at the scene despite efforts from emergency services.
Turkish authorities have launched an investigation into Beyza's death, although police are not believed to be treating it as suspicious.
It is thought that Beyza was on the phone as she fell to her death and police are looking into her records to identify the caller. Police hope to take a statement from the mystery caller as they gather evidence.
The recent tragedy comes after a young woman unwittingly filmed her final moments before she was killed in a "fireball" plane crash in northwest Turkey earlier this month.
Burcu Saglam, 22, captured her final moments onboard the two-seater jet, and even signed off the clip with the ominous caption "Byee", before it plunged to the ground in Osmangazi.
The glamorous beautician shared a video on her Instagram page of her doomed flight, eerily capturing the moments before disaster struck.
Haunting images of the Turkish national's final moments show the light aircraft taking to the skies, before clipping an overhead power line with its wing - which caused it to go up in flames. Both Burcu and the plane's pilot Hakan Koksal, 54, were confirmed dead.
