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‘It was like the movies, people were screaming and crying’: Survivor describes harrowing plane crash in Kazakhstan | ‘It was like the movies, people were screaming and crying’: Survivor describes harrowing plane crash in Kazakhstan |
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A passenger recalled her nightmarish journey aboard a Bek Air airliner in Kazakhstan, which struggled to gain altitude and flew at a “weird angle” before crashing into a building and killing 12 people on Friday. | |
The jet was scheduled to take off from the southern city of Almaty at 7:05am local time and travel to Nur-Sultan, the nation’s capital, but the flight was “delayed” for unknown reasons, a passenger told Tengri News. | The jet was scheduled to take off from the southern city of Almaty at 7:05am local time and travel to Nur-Sultan, the nation’s capital, but the flight was “delayed” for unknown reasons, a passenger told Tengri News. |
The woman, who was not named in the report, said she was asleep when the aircraft finally took off. | The woman, who was not named in the report, said she was asleep when the aircraft finally took off. |
She then heard “a loud sound coming either from the engine or somewhere else.” | She then heard “a loud sound coming either from the engine or somewhere else.” |
The woman recalled how the other survivors were worried that the plane could blow up on the ground. | The woman recalled how the other survivors were worried that the plane could blow up on the ground. |
“It seemed like a [bad] dream,” she said. | “It seemed like a [bad] dream,” she said. |
According to early reports, a Fokker 100 plane with up to 100 people on board crashed into a small two-story building during take-off. 12 people died and almost 50 were hospitalized. | |
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