that they also iced the plane before it took off now this accident is of course very dramatic for cousin stan there has been a day of mourning national mourning declared tomorrow 1 people have been called on to give blood. for those injured and the president. has expressed his condolences with the families of the victims and what we know about the safety record of this plane in particular and the airline that was operating it. well becky air is a pretty small airline it has around 10 planes and offer a sions but they operate rather regular flights internationally and nationally within kazakhstan they have a pretty sound safety record so far when it comes to the plane it was a fucker 100 it was reportedly 23 years old but these planes according to experts are known as rather solid this type of airplane is rather old but it still is in operation in many airlines around the world but they are phasing it out in a lot of airlines apparently now the cars that government has said that they are halting the operations not only of the airline but also of that plane for now until further notice until th