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At 6:39 PM, the two aircraft collided at a speed exceeding 1,000 kilometers per hour. The Kazakh plane struck the left engines of the Saudi aircraft, igniting a catastrophic explosion that led to the descent of both planes engulfed in flames. Neither aircraft nor its occupants had the chance for survival as they plummeted to the ground.
This tragic sequence of events culminated in an unimaginable loss: 349 lives extinguished in an instant due to a lapse in communication, misjudgments in altitude, and a failure of air traffic infrastructure.