14 killed, 35 hurt in Kazakhstan plane crash
A Kazakhstan plane with 98 people aboard crashed shortly after takeoff early Friday, killing at least 12 and injuring 49, officials in Almaty said.
The Bek Air aircraft hit a fence and a two-story building after takeoff from Almaty International Airport. It said the plane lost altitude at 7:22 a.m. Local authorities had earlier put the death toll at 15, but the Interior Ministry of the Central Asian nation later revised the figure downward, without explaining.
In a statement on its Facebook page, the airport said there was no fire and a rescue operation got underway immediately.Around 1,000 people were working at the snow-covered site of the crash. The weather in Almaty was clear, with mild subzero temperatures. Footage showed the front of the broken-up fuselage rammed a house and the rear of the plane lying in the field next to the airport.The aircraft was identified as a Fokker-100, a medium-sized, twin-turbofan jet. The manufacturer went bankrupt in 1996 and production of the Fokker-100 stopped the following year.All Bek Air and Fokker-100 flights in Kazakhstan have been suspended pending the investigation of the crash, the country’s authorities said.
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