Bek Air Flight 2100
Fokker 100 · Crashed on takeoff in icy weather and ice on the wings, pilot error
From Almaty International Airport (ALA) to Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport (NQZ)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 13 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 98
- Survivors
- 85
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 66
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Fokker 100
- Flight
- Z92100
- Aircraft type
- Fokker 100
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- UP-F1007
- Operator
- Bek Air
- Onboard fatalities
- 13
- Route
- From Almaty International Airport (ALA)To Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport (NQZ)
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Fluids/misc hardware
- Aircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
Bek Air Flight 2100 was a domestic passenger flight from Almaty to Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, operated by a Fokker 100 that crashed on 27 December 2019 while taking off from Almaty International Airport. Of the 98 people on board (93 passengers and 5 crew), 13 died in the crash and 66 were injured. The Kazakh government started investigations on the same day.
Accident
The aircraft crashed into a building just after takeoff from Almaty International Airport in Kazakhstan. The plane took off from runway 05R and lost altitude shortly afterwards. During takeoff, its tail reportedly hit the runway twice. It reportedly turned to the right and hit a concrete perimeter fence, before impacting a two-floor building in a residential area, close to the perimeter track, around 7:22 am local time. The front of the aircraft broke away from the main fuselage, sustaining significant damage, and the tail broke off at the rear.
One of the survivors stated he had seen ice on the wings. In a telephone conversation, he said, "The left wing jolted really hard, I noticed that then jolted the right [wing], and the plane began swinging as a boat." He continued, "When we took off, the plane began to shake very hard and I knew it was going to fall... All the people who stepped on the wing fell, because there was ice. I cannot say that [before taking off] the wings were not sprayed with antifreeze, but the fact is that there was ice [visible on the wings]." The temperature at the time was -12 C and visibility was 1000 m, with thick fog close to the scene.
Passengers reported opening of the over-wing exit, using which they crawled out of the aircraft, ice on the wings however caused escaping passengers to slip and fall.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
According to the Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, the preliminary results made by the commission of investigation found that the airplane struck the runway surface twice with its tail with 300-400 m between the two tailstrikes.
At the end of the runway, the aircraft made a sharp turn to the right. The landing gear had already been retracted at this time. Runway surface conditions were normal.
The commission looked for human factors or technical malfunctions. The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder were recovered from the crash site. The captain died, while the first officer at that time was hospitalized for serious injuries, so both pilots were unable to say what happened.
Another pilot had reported 3 hours before the accident that frost had accumulated on the leading-edge slats and fuel tanks of his aircraft but the rest of the wings were free from frost. However, it was reported that other aircraft parked during the night had accumulated significant amounts of ice. At an altitude of about 1,000 ft, there was a temperature inversion with a rise in temperature of 11 C-change.
Final report and probable cause
The final report stated that the probable cause of the crash was asymmetrical loss of lift during takeoff which caused the wings to stall soon after leaving the runway. The loss of lift was caused by ice accumulation that occurred while the aircraft was on the ground.
The airplane descended immediately after takeoff and rolled to the right on the snow-covered ground, destroying the airport perimeter fence and colliding with a two-floor private building about 10 m from the fence. Impact forces killed 11 passengers and one member of the flight crew, and injured 47 passengers.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Bek Air Flight 2100
- Article
- Bek Air Flight 2100
- Revision
- 1371493691 · 2026-08-26 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q7453539
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Bek Air Flight 2100" (page 62673516, revision 1371493691)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.