At least 15 people died and dozens were injured on Friday when a passenger plane carrying 100 people crashed shortly after takeoff from Kazakhstan's largest city and slammed into a house, state media reported.
The Fokker 100 Bek Air plane disappeared from the radar minutes after it took off from Almaty airport at 7.05 am (01:05 GMT) on its way to the capital Nur-Sultan with 95 passengers and five crew members, the airport authority said in a statement.
It hit a concrete barrier and then slammed into a two-storey building. The reason for the crash, which took place near the city's boundary northeast of the airport, was not immediately known.
The head of Almaty's health service, Tleukhan Abildayev, said 14 people died at the scene while a young woman died later in hospital.
A total of 66 people were injured, of whom 50 were hospitalised, with 12 in an "extremely serious condition", he said.
Here are the highlights on the plane crash in Kazakhstan :
READ HERE: Kazakhstan Plane Crash: 14 Dead After Plane With 98 On Board Crashes Into Building In KazakhstanA Bek Air plane with 95 passengers and five crew memberson 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.
The Bek Air plane "fell off the radar" minutes after it took off from Almaty airport at 7.05 am (01:05 GMT) on its way to the capital, Nur-Sultan, the airport authority said in a statement.
"There are 14 dead at the (crash) site," the city government said in a statement sent from its Telegram messenger app.
