14 killed, 35 hurt as plane with 100 passengers crashes in Kazakhstan

Team Udayavani, Dec 27, 2019, 9:40 AM IST

Almaty: A plane with 95 passengers and five crew members on board crashed near the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan on Friday, killing at least 14 people and injuring 35 officials in Almaty said.

The plane 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.

The committee and Almaty airport said the search and rescue mission are working at the site to get survivors out.

#Kazakhstan Autre vidéo qui documente les recherches menées sur le lieu du crash du vol Alma-Ata – Nursultan de Bek Air qui a percuté un immeuble au décollage.
Le bilan actuel est de 7 morts, l’avion embarquait 100 personnes (95 passagers + 5 membres d’équipage) pic.twitter.com/vuNbFuUk6t

— Rebecca Rambar (@RebeccaRambar) December 27, 2019

#Bekair plane crashes after take off from Almaty Airport #flight2100 #Almaty #Алматы pic.twitter.com/qx9HiKbjSn

— Hamadi Aram (@H_Aram) December 27, 2019

Kazakhstan president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev expressed condolences to the victims and their families and also said that the responsible people for the incident will face tough punishment in accordance with the law.

The aircraft was identified as a Fokker-100, a medium-sized, twin-turbofan jet airliner. The company manufacturing the aircraft went bankrupt in 1996 and the production of the Fokker-100 stopped the following year.