Kazakhstan: 14 Dead After Plane Crashes Into House

A passenger plane crashed into a two-story house just minutes after it took off from the Almaty airport in Kazakhstan, resulting in the loss of 14 lives.

According to reports from the Almaty airport authorities, the crashed plane was the Bek Air plane, and it was said to have fallen "off the radar" just minutes after it took off from the airport at 7.05 am (01:05 GMT) as it journeyed to the country's capital, Nur-Sultan.

The city government, in a statement sent from Telegram, "There are 14 dead at the (crash) site."

It also stated that 17 of the affected were at the hospital receiving treatment and were described to be in a "serious condition" and this includes eight children in the least.

In a video supplied by the country's emergency committee, it showed that the front of the plane crashed into a house that had partially collapsed.

The rescue team, in the video, could be seen reaching into the cock pit's window.

Kazakhstan's president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has vowed to compesate the affected families and, in a tweet, he promised that those responsible "will be severely punished in accordance with the law."

He also disclosed that the government had set up a committee that will examine the circumstances that led to the crash.

Earlier this year in March, the a plane from the same airline, Bek Air Fokker-100, conveying 116 passengers made an emergency landing at the country's capital international airport after the plane's landing gear did not deploy. No one was injured in the crash.

The Fokker-100 model would be grounded until the investigations by the government are done, this is according to the country's Ministry of Industry, in a statement.