Rescuers working at the site of a passenger plane crash outside Almaty. The passenger plane was carrying 100 people when it crashed into a house shortly after takeoff from Kazakhstan’s largest city. AFP
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AFP) — 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 a.m. (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.
It added that 17 patients were being treated in a hospital for “serious condition,” including at least eight children.
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A video, released by the Central Asian country’s emergencies committee, showed the front of the plane crashing into a house that was partially collapsed, as rescue crews worked to pull people from the wreckage.
Rescue workers could be seen reaching into the windows of the shattered cock pit, as scores of emergency staff gathered at the site.
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev pledged to provide families of the victims with compensation and tweeted that those responsible “will be severely punished in accordance with the law.”
Tokayev also said that a government commission had been set up to investigate the circumstances surrounding the tragedy.
