In the crash killed the President of the Council of generals of Kazakhstan

in a plane crash near Almaty airport, killing the President of the Council of generals of Kazakhstan Rustem Kaydar. He was 79 years old, according to Zakon.kz.

the Tragedy occurred at 07:22 am on December 27, a few minutes after takeoff Fokker-100 airline Bek Air. Suddenly the liner with 93 passengers on Board lost altitude, struck a concrete guardrail and crashed into two-storey structure.

the Number of victims has risen to 15 people — died one of the pilots of the aircraft. At the same time at the air port published a preliminary list of the 60 survivors.

In the hospital delivered 66 passengers, 50 of them were hospitalized, 12 of them are in serious condition.

According to preliminary data, Russians aboard that flight was not. Operations suspended for a while.