Bad Weather - Plane Crash Kills 22 In Kazakhstan - Emergencies Official Reuters

By Mariya Gordeyeva

KYZYL TU, Kazakhstan Tue Jan 29, 2013 4:44am EST

KYZYL TU, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - A voyager airplane crashed within wide fog near Kazakhstan's industrial budget of Almaty with Tuesday, killing most 22 people on board, an urgent situation services public said.

The Canadian-built Bombardier Challenger CRJ-200 ended up being en option from metropolis connected with Kokshetau within northern Kazakhstan in order to Almaty while in the southeast while this crashed near the commune connected with Kyzyl Tu, Deputy Almaty Mayor Maulen Mukashev said.

He shared with reporters close to the scene which the aeroplanes belonged that will individual Kazakh aircarrier SCAT, which functions comprehensive every day companies and many global flights.

"There had been simply no fire, zero explosion. The planes just plunged towards the earth," Yuri Ilyin, deputy brain belonging to the city's emergencies department, shared with Reuters nearby the scene.

Ilyin position the passing away toll during 22.

Almaty as well as the around location ended up veiled inside thick fog on Tuesday.

"The up front reason behind this car accident will be terrible weather," Mukashev said. "Not a particular section of the particular planes was remaining intact immediately after the item emerged down."

It has been cost-free airplane crash in that Central Asian state and also original Soviet republic in barely a over the month.

On December 25, a armed service transport airplane crashed with bad weather condition close to the southern Kazakh metropolis associated with Shymkent, harming just about all 27 people on board.

Prosecutors have mentioned that a dangerous mixture off technical problems, poor weather condition and human errors caused in which accident.

(Reporting by way of Mariya Gordeyeva; Writing by way of Dmitry Solovyov; Editing by Timothy Heritage)