Almaty, Kazakhstan, Dec 27 (AFP/APP): Twelve people died when a plane carrying 100 passengers and crew crashed shortly after takeoff in Kazakhstan on Friday and collided with a house, but many onboard survived without serious injury. The 23-year-old plane operated by budget carrier Bek Air was torn apart and its nose crushed on impact with a building that partially collapsed, a video released by the Central Asian country’s emergencies committee showed. The aircraft disappeared from the radar minutes after it took off from Almaty airport at 7.05 am (01:05 GMT) on its way to the capital Nur-Sultan with 95 passengers and five crew members aboard, the airport authority said in a statement. It hit a concrete barrier and then slammed into an uninhabited two-storey house near the city’s boundary northeast of the airport. Kazakhstan responded to the crash by grounding the Fokker model, which makes up the whole of the Bek Air fleet, and launched an investigation. The country’s emergencies committee released a list of 12 people who died, including the captain. The health ministry said 53 people had been injured, nine of them children, adding that 10 of the adults were in critical condition. Most onboard were Kazakhs but … Continue reading 12 killed as plane crashes in Kazakhstan but many survive