Four people died and two were seriously injured when an Antonov An-26 transport aircraft of the Border Guard Service of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan (NSC) crashed this Saturday (13) at 17:22 local time.
The aircraft coming from Nur Sultan crashed when trying to land at Almaty International Airport. The NSC is investigating the cause of the accident. The two survivors are hospitalized
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An AN-26 plane crashed in Kazakhstan pic.twitter.com/mCxXv0cRZr
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🇰🇿 Today a military transport aircraft AN-26 of the #aviation #Service of the #National #Security #Committee of the #RepublicofKazakhstan, en route from Nur-Sultan-Almaty, crashed in #Kazakhstan near #Almaty. pic.twitter.com/eFJE6DkP02
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The Antonov An-26 is a twin-engine turboprop for civil and military transport developed in the 60s in the former Soviet Union. More than 1400 units were produced. According to the flyglobal, the Kazakh Air Force has eight units of the model.
