Another sad day....
I note that SCAT appears on the EU Commission Blacklist of airlines, current as at 4.12.2012.
It seems that only Air Astana passes muster in terms of acceptable EU levels of air safety within Kazakhstan. This may well be more to the lack of western levels of regulatory oversight (in the US sense of the phrase)
What prospects are there for an unbiased and clear safety led accident investigation as per Annex 13?