| Date: | March 03, 1974 |
| Location: | Near Ermenonville, France |
| Aircraft: | McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 |
| Reg: | TC-JAV |
| Airline: | Turkish Airlines |
| Flight No: | 981 |
| Fatalities: | 346 : 346 |
| Not many pieces of wreckage larger than 3 feet long could be found after a Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed into a forest at a high rate of speed at Ermenonville, France. A defective latching mechanism on the cargo door caused it to fail in flight resulting in decompression and loss of all hydraulic control. |