KAZAKHSTAN is mourning the deaths of 27 people in one of its worst aviation disasters.
The disaster wiped out much of the top echelon of the state border service including the acting chief.
The KNB state security service confirmed that all 27 crew and servicemen on board the An-72 military jet were killed on Tuesday evening when it crashed close to Shymkent airport in the south of the country.
"All 27 occupants of the aircraft, including seven crew members, have perished," the National Security Service (KNB) said in a statement on Wednesday.
The victims included the acting head of the Kazakh federal border service Turganbek Stambekov and his wife, the statement said.
The disaster also killed many in the top leadership of the border service, with a total of 11 leading officials perishing.
Another five lieutenant-colonels from the regional Ontustik border unit were killed as well, as were three rank-and-file servicemen.
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev declared December 27 a day of national mourning and expressed his "deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of the dead".
He ordered a full investigation of the causes of the disaster as well as assistance to the victims' families.
The head of the KNB, Nurtai Abykayev, told reporters in Shymkent that the causes of the disaster could have been "the weather conditions, the human factor and the technical condition of the aircraft".
The black box of the plane has been found, he said.
The KNB said the passengers had been attending a meeting of border guards in the capital Astana and were on their way to an end-of-year security meeting in Shymkent.
The 22-year-old plane crashed late Tuesday about 20 kilometres from Shymkent airport where it had been due to land after a flight from Astana.
Aviation disasters remain a scourge across the former USSR due to ageing hardware that often has not been replaced since the fall of the Soviet regime, as well as human error.
In November, eight people were killed in Kazakhstan when a Russian-made Mi-8 helicopter crashed while on a pipeline surveillance mission.
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