SCAT Air Flight Crashes Near Almaty Airport Killing All 22 on Board
SCAT Crash Site
A SCAT Air plane crashed while on approach to Almaty Airport in Kazakhstan Tuesday disintegrating on impact, killing 22 passengers and crew.
SCAT Flight 760 was a Bombardier CRJ-200 aircraft and disappeared from radar in bad weather (fog) shortly before the incident.
Reuters reports:
‘”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.
Parts of the plane could be seen in the thick snow. Tractors and other heavy vehicles were being used cut paths through the snow to the wreckage but journalists were kept at a distance from the crash site.’
“The preliminary cause of the accident is bad weather,” Deputy Almaty Mayor Maulen Mukashev told reporters. “Not a single part of the plane was left intact after it came down.”
The plane had been on its way from the city of Kokshetau in northern Kazakhstan to Almaty in the southeast, Mukashev said.
We will update this story when we learn more…