A plane from a Turkish airport runway is about to fall into the sea facing the Black Sea

A plane from a Turkish airport runway is about to fall into the sea facing the Black Sea Passengers panicked in a plane that veered off a Turkish airport runway to hang at the edge of a rocky cliff overlooking the sea and just meters from the edge of the water. 

The plane, a Boeing 737-800 belonging to Pegasus Airlines, was carrying 168 passengers as well as crew. 

It took off on a flight from the Turkish capital of Ankara to land at the Trabzon airport on the Black Sea coast late Saturday. 

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The governor of Trabzon, Yogel Yavoz, said he had evacuated all the passengers on board, and there were no reports of any injuries. 

Officials said an investigation was under way to find out the cause of the accident. 

The Turkish Anatolia News Agency described the panic that spread among the passengers when they got out of control and deviated from the runway. 

One of the passengers, Fatima Gordo, was quoted as saying: "We were taken to the side, and then the front of the plane was down and its tail was up. 

The pictures of the plane appeared on top of a muddy slope just meters from the edge of the sea. 

The governor explained that the airport had been closed for several hours while continuing to investigate the incident. 

Pegasus Air Lines said in a statement that a "runway derailment" occurred when the plane landed at Trabzon airport.