Passenger plane crashes in Kazakhstan
27 December 2019 |
8:30 am
A passenger plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Almaty airport in Kazakhstan, the government says. The Central Asian country's emergencies committee said that 100 people were on board the Bek Air plane, including five staff.
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