At least 15 dead after passenger plane crashes in Kazakhstan, officials say

A Kazakhstan plane with 100 people aboard crashed shortly after takeoff early Friday, killing at least 14 people, officials say.

In a statement on its Facebook page, the airport said there was no fire and a rescue operation got underway immediately following the crash.

Around 1,000 people were working at the snow-covered site of the crash. The weather in Almaty was clear, with mild sub-zero temperatures that are common at this time of the year. Footage showed the front of the broken-up fuselage rammed a house and the rear of the plane lying in the field next to the airport.The U.S. Mission extends its deepest condolences to those affected by the crash of Bek Air flight

today near Almaty. The U.S. Mission in Kazakhstan is following the incident very closely and stands ready to offer Consular assistance, if needed.The aircraft was identified as a Fokker-100, a medium-sized, twin-turbofan jet airliner. The company manufacturing the aircraft went bankrupt in 1996 and the production of the Fokker-100 stopped the following year.

All Bek Air and Fokker-100 flights in Kazakhstan have been suspended pending the investigation of the crash, the country’s authorities said.

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