Maritime pilot

An 18-year-old young Turk, chasing his dream of becoming an airline pilot, has been recently granted a pilot license when he was yet to have a driver's one.

The two pilots are safe

More than 25 cargo ships were waiting outside the port of Piraeus on Wedneday, unable to approach it as the Greek port pilot service called a 48-hour strike, creating major delays and serving a blow to the port's international prestige.

Eventually the strike was ruled illegal in court, but this isn't the first time the pilots have decided not to work in recent months.

"It is a very low probability that the high-tension line there was not known," a retired helicopter pilot said after a crash last week in the southeastern province of Şırnak killed 13 soldiers. "It is a wide region. There are dozens of high-voltage transmission lines. They are known to pilots but maybe because of the surrounding light conditions, it could have escaped attention." 

The Italian Coast Guard rescued 970 migrants on Wednesday after smugglers put their cargo ship -- located sail in Greek waters the previous day -- on automatic pilot heading straight for a crash into the Italian coast and abandoned the command.