Kazakh air crash

Ice build-up behind

Nur-Sultan (Kaz.): A build-up of ice may have caused a passenger plane crash in Kazakhstan last month in which 12 people died but dozens survived, a state commission said on Friday. The budget carrier plane was torn apart and its nose crushed on impact with a two-storey building minutes after taking off from Almaty on December 27. Deputy Prime Minister Roman Sklyar said the plane’s wings had not been de-iced, causing a build-up that the commission had identified as the most likely cause of the crash.