Plane Crashes After Takeoff in Kazakhstan, 12 Dead, Dozens Injured

Plane Crashes After Takeoff in Kazakhstan, 12 Dead, Dozens Injured
Emergency and security personnel are seen at the site of a plane crash near Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Dec. 27, 2019. Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters
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ALMATY—A passenger plane carrying nearly 100 people crashed soon after take-off near the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan on Friday, slamming into a house in an accident that killed 12 people and injured dozens.

The Fokker 100 aircraft, operated by Bek Air, got into trouble shortly after departing from Almaty, the Central Asian country’s commercial center, on a pre-dawn flight to the capital Nur-Sultan.