source: www.reuters.com
(Reuters)
- A passenger plane crashed in thick fog near Kazakhstan's commercial capital
of Almaty on Tuesday, killing all 22 people on board, an emergency services
official said.
The
Canadian-built Bombardier Challenger CRJ-200 was en route from the city of
Kokshetau in northern Kazakhstan to Almaty in the southeast when it crashed
near the village of Kyzyl Tu, Deputy Almaty Mayor Maulen Mukashev said.
He
told reporters near the scene that the plane belonged to private Kazakh airline
SCAT, which operates extensive domestic services and some international
flights.
"There
was no fire, no explosion. The plane just plunged to the earth," Yuri
Ilyin, deputy head of the city's emergencies department, told Reuters near the
scene.
Ilyin
put the death toll at 22.
Almaty
and the surrounding area were veiled in thick fog on Tuesday.
"The
preliminary cause of the accident is bad weather," Mukashev said.
"Not a single part of the plane was left intact after it came down."
It
was the second plane crash in the Central Asian country and former Soviet
republic in just a over a month.
On
December 25, a military transport airplane crashed in bad weather near the
southern Kazakh city of Shymkent, killing all 27 people on board.
Prosecutors
have said that a fatal combination of technical problems, bad weather and human
errors caused that accident.
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