Turkish Airlines diverts Istanbul flight to Dublin

A Turkish Airlines Boeing 777 airplane that departed from Houston, Texas, diverted to Ireland’s Dublin on Monday.

Flight TK34 was headed toward Istanbul, Turkey, when a passenger became ill.

Turkish Airlines flies to 300 destinations in 120 countries, including 251 international and 49 domestic destinations.

By the end of July 2017, the company had 331 aircrafts, of which 90 were wide-body while the number of narrow-body aircraft and cargo planes were 226 and 15, respectively.

Last year, Turkish Airlines carried 62.8 million passengers, up 2.5 percent from 61.2 million passengers in 2015.