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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.
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The head of Almaty's health service, Tleukhan Abildayev, said 14 people died at the scene while a young woman died later in hospital.
The head of Almaty's health service, Tleukhan Abildayev, said 14 people died at the scene while a young woman died later in hospital.
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Kazakhstan Plane Crash: At least 14 dead after Bek Air plane "fell off the radar"
At least 14 people died Friday when a passenger plane carrying 100 people crashed into a house shortly after takeoff from Kazakhstan's largest city, authorities 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.
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At least 14 people died when a passenger plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Almaty airport in Kazakhstan, the government said Friday.
"There are 14 dead at the (crash) site," Almaty city government said in a statement via its official channel on the Telegram messenger app.
It added that a further 17 patients were being treated in hospital in a "serious condition".
The aviation committee said it was suspending all flights of that type of aircraft pending an investigation.
"Those responsible will face tough punishment in accordance with the law," Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev tweeted, expressing condolences to the victims and their families.
The Almaty airport had first posted that the Almaty-Nur Sultan flight had departed as per schedule, but had disappeared from the radar soon after.
Minutes later, the airport shared another Facebook post confirming that the airline lost "height and struck concrete fence, colliding with a two-story building"
A Facebook post by the Almaty International airport first confirmed the crash at around 8.20 am (IST).
"Beck Air crashed outside the airfield. There are survivors. emergency services are working on the spot," the post roughly translated as.
The plane that crashed near the city of Almaty was heading for the capital, Nur-Sultan, and "lost altitude during takeoff and broke through a concrete fence" before hitting a small building, Kazakhstan's Civil Aviation Committee said in a statement.