The crew of the Challenger-200 airplane that crashed near Almaty was warned about bad weather conditions twice before they took-off from Kokshetau airport.
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, founder of the electric carmaker Tesla and aeronautics firm SpaceX, has offered to help Boeing fix apparent problems with the batteries in its grounded 787 Dreamliner.
A 25-y.o. citizen of Karaganda told that her father was supposed to be on that fatal Kokshetau-Almaty flight as the second pilot, but was switched to another flight in the last moment.
Heads of the European Parliament, European Council and European Commission expressed condolences to Kazakhstan and the families of the victims of the plane crash.
There were 3 Almaty residents, 11 residents of Akmola oblast and 2 residents of Petropavlovsk and Bishkek onboard the CRJ-200 airplane that crashed near Almaty.
The American aerospace giant Boeing halted deliveries of its 787 Dreamliner on Friday but said it would continue to build the aircraft while safety experts examine its battery and electrical systems.
Boeing suffered another huge blow on Wednesday as US and Japanese regulators grounded its 787 Dreamliner until a fire risk linked to the plane's lithium batteries can been resolved.
India's aviation regulator said Thursday it had instructed Air India to ground its fleet of Boeing Dreamliners following similar orders from authorities in the United States and Japan.