A Bek Air plane with 95 passengers and five crew members on board crashed near the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan on Friday shortly after taking off, killing at least 14 people, authorities in the Central Asian country said.
At least 14 people were killed, and 22 have been hospitalised in grave condition, the Almaty mayor’s office said.
BBC reports that the Bek Air aircraft went down shortly after taking off at Almaty airport on Friday morning local time.
According to Flightview.com flight tracker, the Fokker 100 aircraft of Bek Air was scheduled to leave Almaty at 7:05am local time and arrive in capital Astana at 8:40am on Friday
Update:
According to Kazakhstan’s civil aviation agency, the Bek Air plane “lost altitude during takeoff and broke through a concrete fence”, before hitting a building. In a statement posted on social media, the Almaty International Airport said a special commission is investigating the circumstances leading to the deadly incident.
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