Almaty: A plane with 95 passengers and five crew members on board crashed near the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan on Friday (Dec 27), killing at least 15 people, authorities in the Central Asian nation said.
The Bek Air plane was heading for the capital, Nur-Sultan, and "lost altitude during takeoff and broke through a concrete fence" before hitting a two-storey building, Kazakhstan’s Civil Aviation Committee said in a statement.
At least 14 people were killed, and 22 have been hospitalised in grave condition, the Almaty mayor’s office said.
The plane was taking off before dawn. A Reuters reporter travelling to the airport said there was thick fog in the area.
The crash site in Almerek village – just beyond the end of the runway – has been cordoned off.Almaty Village: A plane with 95 passengers and five crew members on board crashed
near the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan on Friday (Dec 27), killing at least 15 people, authorities in the Central Asian nation said.
The Bek Air plane was heading for the capital, Nur-Sultan, and "lost altitude during takeoff and broke through a concrete fence" before hitting a two-storey building, Kazakhstan’s Civil Aviation Committee said in a statement.
At least 14 people were killed, and 22 have been hospitalised in grave condition, the Almaty mayor’s office said.
The plane was taking off before dawn. A Reuters reporter travelling to the airport said there was thick fog in the area.
The crash site in Almerek village – just beyond the end of the runway – has been cordoned off.
