At least 14 dead after passenger jet with 100 people on board crashes into a building shortly after takeoff from Almaty Airport in Kazakhstan
- At least 14 people were reported dead and several others injured after a passenger jet crashed after takeoff from an airport in Kazakhstan on Friday
- The Bek Air aircraft with 100 on board left the airport at Almaty, Kazakhstan’s biggest city, on Friday morning local time
- The plane was reported to have smashed through a concrete fence and then into a small building immediately after losing altitude
- Authorities reported finding 35 survivors with injuries. People can be heard calling for help in videos of the crash site posted online
- WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT
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At least 14 people were reported dead when a passenger jet crashed after takeoff from an airport in Kazakhstan on Friday.
Bek Air flight Z2100 with 100 on board went down shortly after take off from the airport in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, Friday morning.
The Fokker 100 jet had left Almaty at 7.05am local time and was to arrive in the country’s capital of Nursultan by 8:40am.
At least nine people were reported dead after a passenger jet crashed after takeoff from an airport in Kazakhstan on Friday. The plane (pictured) was reported to have smashed through a concrete fence and then into a small, two-story building immediately after it lost altitude
Footage of the crash scene show the fuselage partially broken up in the ruins of the building struck by the aircraft
Bek Air flight Z2100 with 100 on board went down shortly after take off from the airport in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, Friday morning. The crash site is show on the above locator map
According to Kazakhstan’s civil aviation agency, the jet ‘lost altitude during takeoff and broke through a concrete fence’, before hitting a building, reports Aljazeera.
Kazakh state media, citing the Internal Affairs Ministry, said at least nine people had been killed in the crash, and nine people, including six children, had been injured.
Footage of the crash scene show the fuselage partially broken up in the ruins of the building that was struck.
People can be heard calling for help in videos of the crash site posted online.
Some of the footage also shows what appear to be bodies in the wreckage.
Emergency service personnel have rushed to the scene to search through the rubble for survivors.
Kazakhstan aviation authorities reportedly had grounded all Fokker 100 jets following the deadly crash.
The Almaty International Airport said a special commission is investigating the circumstances leading to the deadly incident.
An image of the wreckage posted in video footage by @Breaking911 on Twitter shows what appear to be bodies in the wreckage
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev expressed his condolences to the friends and families of those killed in the crash, in a social medial post.
First responders search for survivors in the wreckage of the plane where it struck a small building after take off from the airport in Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan
‘All those injured will be rendered assistance. All those responsible will carry severe punishment in accordance with the law,’ Kaz Inform news agency quoted the president as saying in the Kazakh language.
An image from footage of the crash site shows what appears to be two bodies lying near the wreckage
Images of footage posted on social media of the crash site the fuselage broken in several pieces