14 killed, 35 hurt as plane with 100 passengers crashes in Kazakhstan

Almaty: A plane with 95 passengers and five crew members on board crashed near the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan on Friday, killing at least 14 people and injuring 35 officials in Almaty said.

The plane was heading for the capital, Nur-Sultan, and “lost altitude during takeoff and broke through a concrete fence” before hitting a small building, Kazakhstan’s Civil Aviation Committee said in a statement.

The committee and Almaty airport said the search and rescue mission are working at the site to get survivors out.

Kazakhstan president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev expressed condolences to the victims and their families and also said that the responsible people for the incident will face tough punishment in accordance with the law.

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.