MOSCOW — A Kazakhstan plane with 98 people aboard crashed shortly after takeoff early Friday, killing at least 14 people, officials in Almaty said. The Bek Air aircraft hit a concrete fence and a two-story building after takeoff from Almaty International Airport. The plane was flying to Nur-Sultan, the country’s capital formerly known as Astana. 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.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 27, 2019 05:15 UTC