Most Passengers In The Front Of Aircraft Died In Kazakhstan Plane Crash: Official

At 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.

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