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| Kazakhstan plane crash kills at least seven | |
| 2019-12-27 | |
| [The Hill] At least seven people died after a passenger plane crashed near Almaty, Kazakhstan Friday, according to the BBC. The plane, which was carrying 95 passengers and five crew members, "lost altitude during takeoff and broke through a concrete fence" en route to the capital city of Nur-Sultan, hitting a small building, according to the nation’s Civil Aviation Committee. a "concrete fence" = a WALL
Officials said a special commission will be established to determine the specific cause of the crash. The crash follows another accident near Almaty in January 2013, when a passenger plane went down near the city on a flight from the northern town of Kokshetau. | |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 12 killed and dozens injured as plane crashes in Kazakhstan |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-12-27 09:00 |
| #2 crashed during takeoff, but no fire? first read sounds like somebody didn’t hit the fuel pits. but on the bright side, the lack of a fire probably contributed greatly to the high survivor count. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2019-12-27 07:12 |
| #1 The article picture shows a Boeing 747 coming in for a landing somewhere. the plane that crashed is actually a Fokker 100 From the Wikipedia article: 27 December 2019: Bek Air Flight 2100 disappeared from radar at 7:05 am local time. It was carrying 98 passengers. At least 66 people survived with injuries, 50 of them hospitalized, 14 died on impact and 1 in a local hospital. Footage showed houses ruined with sections of the plane strewn across the landscape. The airport said the plane lost height at 07:22 local time (01:22 GMT), before striking a concrete barrier and crashing into a two-story building. There was no fire upon impact. |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-12-27 05:54 |