SCAT Airlines Flight 760

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SCAT Airlines Flight 760 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Kokshetau to Almaty, Kazakhstan, that crashed in thick fog near Kyzyltu on 29 January 2013, killing all 16 passengers and 5 crew on board.<ref name="Reuters">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="The Aviation Herald">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=AirSafe.com>Template:Cite web</ref>

Crash

The Bombardier CRJ200 airliner operating the flight was on final approach to Almaty International Airport in thick fog when it crashed Template:Convert short of the runway near the village of Kyzyltu at 13:13 local time (07:13 UTC), 14 seconds after initiating a go-around.<ref name="The Aviation Herald"/> All 16 passengers and 5 crew members aboard were killed.<ref name="Reuters"/><ref name="The Australian">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="BBC News">Template:Cite news</ref>

Investigation

Shortly after the accident, a commission headed by Bakytzhan Sagintayev, the First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, was set up by Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov to investigate the cause of the crash.<ref name="BNews (Kazakhstan)">Template:Cite news</ref>

Maulen Mukashev, the deputy mayor of Almaty, visited the crash site and told reporters that the preliminary cause of the crash was bad weather. Mukashev also added: "Not a single part of the plane was left intact after it came down."<ref name="Reuters"/><ref name="BBC News"/>

On March 2nd 2015 the Interstate Aviation Committee released their final report stating that during the missed approach, necessitated by weather conditions being below minima, the elevator was deflected to lower the nose instead of raising the nose resulting in a steep dive and impact with the ground. The investigation was unable to determine the cause of the elevator movement but did not find evidence of any system malfunction or external influences.<ref>http://www.mak.ru/russian/investigations/2013/report_up-cj006.pdf</ref>

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