CNN: A Plane Carrying 93 Passengers and Five Crew Members Crashed Shortly After Takeoff in Kazakhstan

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QUEST: "The plane went down shortly after takeoff, John. We know very little about what happened, other than the airline involved, Bek Air, has been around since about 1999, started as a business charter, and it flew only this particular model of the Fokker 100 plane. The plane itself was 23 years and 9 months old, so it was on the older side, but certainly not too old, if you like. Overall, all we know is that the plane was taking off in icy conditions, it barely got more that 50 to 100 feet in the air. When it got over the end of the runway, slammed back into the ground, and then ran off the edge of the runway. So what investigators are going to be looking at, clearly it will be things like the maintenance of the aircraft, how well it had been looked after, could something have mechanically gone wrong. And then you're going to be looking at weather. I don't just mean was it too bad to take off, but was the plane properly de-iced in these conditions. The plane can take off without flaps, but did it need flaps in these particular conditions? So a range of issues which they'll be looking at very carefully."