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Kazakhstan Grounds Bek Air Planes After Crash Kills at Least 12
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0:15Now PlayingAt least a dozen people died after a plane crashed shortly after takeoff early Friday in southeastern Kazakhstan, leading local authorities to ground the rest of budget carrier Bek Air’s fleet.
The twin-turbofan Fokker 100 aircraft was carrying 98 people including five crew members, Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister Roman Sklyar said at a news conference in the former capital Almaty. Another 49 were injured, with 18 in serious condition.
Footage posted by a woman who said she survived the Bek Air crash showed a pre-dawn scene of confusion and panic amid wreckage in the snow.
The plane’s tail touched the ground twice during takeoff before gaining altitude and this may have caused the crash, Sklyar said. Among the passengers were two Ukrainian citizens, one Kyrgyz and one Chinese. The captain died in the crash.
Bek Air Flight Z92100 took off from Almaty at 7:05 a.m. en route to the capital, Nur-Sultan, and at 7:22 a.m. lost altitude and crashed into a wall and then a two-story building in the area of Almerek village, according to a post on Almaty airport’s Facebook page.
The 23-year-old jet received a certificate of airworthiness in May, according to a statement from the local civil aviation authority. The cause of the crash wasn’t given. The weather was relatively clear amid below-zero temperatures, according to Flightradar24.
Prime Minister Askar Mamin will lead a commission investigating the crash and publish preliminary findings Jan. 10, according to a government statement.
In another post on Facebook, the airport published a list of 60 survivors it said had received medical aid.
Bek Air didn’t immediately respond to calls for comment. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev issued a statement offering condolences.
Bek Air was founded in 2011 as a full-service domestic carrier operating from a hub at Uralsk Airport in northwestern Kazakhstan, according to CAPA Centre for Aviation. The company’s website shows a fleet of Fokker 100 planes. The average age of the aircraft is about 26 years, according to plane tracking website planespotters.net.
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