Kazakhstan havariet - Øyenvitneskildring - Curt Lewis

A survivor of the Kazakhstan plane crash that killed at least 12 said the aircraft was crushed 'like a tin can' Emergency and security personnel are seen at the site of the plane crash near Almaty, Kazakhstan, December 27, 2019. A survivor of Friday's plane crash in Almaty, Kazakhstan, which killed 12 and injured dozens, described the incident to Sky News. Aslan Nazaraliyev said that the aircraft was crushed in front of him "as if someone started squeezing a tin can." He said that the aircraft started "swaying" and "vibrating" seconds after taking off for the capital, Nur-Sultan. The Bek Air plane had 95 passengers and five crew members on board when it "lost altitude during takeoff and broke through a concrete fence" before hitting a two-storey building, Kazakhstan's Civil Aviation Committee said in a statement. A passenger onboard the Bek Air flight that crashed into a building in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Friday, killing 12 and injuring dozens, has described the horrifying incident. Aslan Nazaraliyev, who had been sitting in the 15th row, told Sky News that the aircraft was crushed in front of him "as if someone started squeezing a tin can." Nazaraliyev said that the aircraft started "swaying" and "vibrating" seconds after taking off for the capital, Nur-Sultan. "I started immediately tightening my seat belt because I thought it was something [that] went wrong," he told Sky News. "After maybe 15, 20 seconds, it started escalating. Then it got so bad that it started at some point going downwards. "So at that time I realized that we will 100% hit the ground." Emergency and security personnel are seen at the site of a plane crash near Almaty, Kazakhstan, December 27, 2019. Nazaraliyev also described seeing the man in the row in front of him being crushed by the ceiling, "smashing him with all that power." The Bek Air plane had 95 passengers and five crew members on board when it "lost altitude during takeoff and broke through a concrete fence" before hitting a two-storey building, Kazakhstan's Civil Aviation Committee said in a statement. At least 12 people were killed, and 66 have been hospitalized, 22 in a grave condition, the Almaty mayor's office said. Al Jazeera reported that the plane's black box was recovered from the crash site, and that a commission had been set up to investigate the incident. "Those responsible will face tough punishment in accordance with the law," Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev tweeted.