Kazakhstan plane crash kills 27 people including leading border guards A security source told the Interfax news agency that all those on board were killed and KTK also reported that according to its latest information there were no survivors. But this was not confirmed in the KNB statement. The emergency services are working at the scene of the incident. An investigation is in progress," the KNB said, without giving more details. The security source quoted by Interfax said that according to initial information there were no survivors. Aviation disasters remain a scourge across the former Soviet Union due to ageing hardware that often has not been replaced since the fall of the Soviet regime as well as human error. The Kazakh border guard service was already hit this year by tragedy with the killing of 14 of its servicemen in May at a border post in the remote Tian Shan mountains. A border guard, Vladislav Chelakh, 20, was this month sentenced to life in prison for the killings but the defence argued he was being made a scapegoat for security failings higher up.