Wednesday 30 January 2013

Bodies of 17 victims in the plane crash identified


Relatives identified 17 bodies of victims of the Chellenger-200 air crash near Almaty, BNews.kz correspondent reports. This morning the identification of the victims, who were aboard of the plane Challenger CRJ-200 of SCAT airline, crashed near Almaty is started at the Almaty forensic identification center. At present the bodies of 17 people, including five crew members and 12 passengers are identified. Four people have not been identified yet.

Yesterday the expertise delivered 21 bodies to the center of Forensic Medicine, all of them were the passengers of flight № 760 with the route "Kokshetau-Almaty".

Remind that, yesterday, January 29, at 01.30 pm local time, without having reached about 5 kilometers to the Almaty city airport, the Challenger-200 plane of JSC SCAT Airline which was carrying out a flight No. 760 on a route "Kokshetau-Almaty" crashed. As a result of the disaster 21 people were killed, among them there was a two-year-old child aboard.

A criminal case have been initiated over the plane crash. Also, the SCAT airline allocates three million tenge per family. The SCAT company undertakes obligations and costs of delivery of the bodies to their homes.

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced Jan. 31 a day of national mourning for the loss of life in a plane crash near Almaty.

Wednesday 30 January 2013

http://bnews.kz/en/news/post/122335/

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