A passenger plane skidded off the runway after landing at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport on Wednesday, breaking into three pieces, killing three people and injuring dozens of others, the authorities said.

At least 157 people were hospitalized, Fahrettin Koca, the minister of health, told reporters in televised remarks. No one was in critical condition, he said.

Kerem Gun, a chief physician at one of the hospitals treating victims, told the broadcaster NTV that most of the injured people had broken noses and head trauma.

The plane was dragged about 160 feet, then fell about 100 feet down a slope, Gov. Ali Yerlikaya of Istanbul said in a news conference from the scene.