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{{Infobox aircraft occurrence
|occurrence_type = Accident
|name          = SCAT Airlines Flight 760
|image         = CRJ-200LR UP-CJ006 (cn 7413) SCAT Air.jpg
|caption       = UP-CJ006, the aircraft involved in the crash
|image_size    = 250px
|date          = 29 January 2013
|summary       = Impacted ground due to steep dive caused by elevator deflection, reasons undetermined
|site          = Near [[Kyzyltu, Kazakhstan|Kyzyltu]], [[Almaty Province]], Kazakhstan
|origin        = [[Kokshetau Airport]]
|destination   = [[Almaty International Airport]]
|passengers    = 16
|crew          = 5
|injuries      =
|fatalities    = 21 (all)
|survivors     = 0
|aircraft_type = [[Bombardier CRJ200]]
|operator      = [[SCAT Airlines]]
|tail_number   = UP-CJ006
}}

'''SCAT Airlines Flight 760''' was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from [[Kokshetau]] to [[Almaty]], [[Kazakhstan]], that crashed in thick fog near [[Kyzyltu, Kazakhstan|Kyzyltu]] on 29 January 2013, killing all 16 passengers and 5 crew on board.<ref name="Reuters">{{cite news|last=Gordeyeva|first=Mariya|title=Passenger plane crash kills 21 in Kazakhstan|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/29/us-kazakhstan-aircrash-idUSBRE90S0AM20130129|accessdate=29 January 2013|publisher=[[Reuters]]|date=29 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="The Aviation Herald">{{cite web|last=Hradecky|first=Simon|title=Crash: Scat CRJ2 at Almaty on Jan 29th 2013, impacted ground near airport|url=http://avherald.com/h?article=45ce98f4|publisher=The Aviation Herald|date=29 January 2013|accessdate=23 June 2013}}</ref><ref name=AirSafe.com>{{cite web|title=Recent Fatal Plane Crashes and Other Significant Airline Safety Events|url=http://www.airsafe.com/events/last_15.htm|publisher=AirSafe.com|date=28 June 2013|accessdate=28 June 2013}}</ref> 

==Crash==
The [[Bombardier CRJ200]] airliner operating the flight was on [[final approach (aviation)|final approach]] to [[Almaty International Airport]] in thick fog when it crashed {{convert|5|km}} short of the runway near the village of Kyzyltu at 13:13 [[Time in Kazakhstan|local time]] (07:13 [[Coordinated Universal Time|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">{{cite news|title=All 20 on board Kazakh SCAT airliner killed in crash|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/all-20-on-board-kazakh-scat-airliner-killed-in-crash/story-e6frg6so-1226564570420|accessdate=29 January 2013|newspaper=[[The Australian]]|date=29 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="BBC News">{{cite news|title=Passenger plane crashes near Kazakh city of Almaty|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21243203|accessdate=29 January 2013|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=29 January 2013}}</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)">{{cite news|title=Kazakhstan's First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Regional Development will head commission on investigation of CRJ 200 LR plane crash causes|url=http://www.bnews.kz/en/news/post/122085/|accessdate=29 January 2013|publisher=BNews (Kazakhstan)|date=29 January 2013}}</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>

==See also==
{{Portal|2010s|Aviation|Death|Disasters|Kazakhstan}}
* [[2012 Kazakhstan Antonov An-72 crash]]

==References==
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==External links==
* "[http://www.scat.kz/ Пресс-релиз]." [[SCAT Airlines]] {{ru icon}} ([http://www.webcitation.org/6E8orXK7U Archive])
* "[http://mak.ru/russian/investigations/2013/crj-200%20up-cj006.html 29 января CRJ-200 UP-CJ006]." [[Interstate Aviation Committee]] {{ru icon}}

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