<p>A Kazakhstan plane with 98 people aboard has crashed shortly after takeoff early Friday, killing at least 15 people, officials in Almaty said.</p>.<p>At least 66 others survived with injuries, 50 of them hospitalized.</p>.<p>The Bek Air aircraft hit a concrete fence and a two-story building after takeoff from Almaty International Airport. It lost attitude at 7:22 a.m. (0122 GMT), the airport said.</p>.<p>In a statement on its Facebook page, the airport said there was no fire and rescue operation got underway immediately following the crash.</p>.<p>Around 1,000 people were working at the snow-covered site of the crash. The weather in Almaty was clear, with a mild sub-zero temperature that is common at this time of the year.</p>.<p>Footage showed the front of the broken-up fuselage rammed a house and the rear of the plane lying in the field next to the airport.</p>.<p>The plane was flying to Nur-Sultan, the country's capital formerly known as Astana.</p>.<p>The aircraft was identified as a Fokker-100, a medium-sized, twin-turbofan jet airliner.</p>.<p>The company manufacturing the aircraft went bankrupt in 1996 and the production of the Fokker-100 stopped the following year.</p>.<p>All Bek Air and Fokker-100 flights in Kazakhstan have been suspended pending the investigation of the crash, the country's authorities said.</p>
<p>A Kazakhstan plane with 98 people aboard has crashed shortly after takeoff early Friday, killing at least 15 people, officials in Almaty said.</p>.<p>At least 66 others survived with injuries, 50 of them hospitalized.</p>.<p>The Bek Air aircraft hit a concrete fence and a two-story building after takeoff from Almaty International Airport. It lost attitude at 7:22 a.m. (0122 GMT), the airport said.</p>.<p>In a statement on its Facebook page, the airport said there was no fire and rescue operation got underway immediately following the crash.</p>.<p>Around 1,000 people were working at the snow-covered site of the crash. The weather in Almaty was clear, with a mild sub-zero temperature that is common at this time of the year.</p>.<p>Footage showed the front of the broken-up fuselage rammed a house and the rear of the plane lying in the field next to the airport.</p>.<p>The plane was flying to Nur-Sultan, the country's capital formerly known as Astana.</p>.<p>The aircraft was identified as a Fokker-100, a medium-sized, twin-turbofan jet airliner.</p>.<p>The company manufacturing the aircraft went bankrupt in 1996 and the production of the Fokker-100 stopped the following year.</p>.<p>All Bek Air and Fokker-100 flights in Kazakhstan have been suspended pending the investigation of the crash, the country's authorities said.</p>