One killed, three injured in plane explosion in Kazakhstan

By RIA Novosti

Astana : One person was killed and three injured when a private German airplane veered off the runway and exploded at Almaty International Airport in Kazakhstan, rescuers said on Wednesday.


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The Gulf Stream plane was midway through a flight from Hannover to Hong-Kong and was making a refueling stop in Almaty, the former Kazakh capital, an airport spokeswoman said.

“At about 3:00 a.m., [9:00 p.m. Tuesday GMT] a traffic controller said the plane had exploded. She said it had broken through the fence while trying to take off, veered off the runway into a field and blown up there,” the spokeswoman said.

She said there had been four people onboard the plane: three members of crew and a passenger.

“The first and second pilots (both German citizens) and the stewardess (a Turkish woman) were injured and are now in hospital. The passenger died,” Malishich said.

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