Emergency specialists work on the crash website of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet close to the western Kazakh metropolis of Aktau on December 25, 2024.
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An Embraer passenger aircraft flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed close to the town of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday with 62 passengers and 5 crew on board, Kazakh authorities introduced, saying that 28 individuals had survived.
Unverified video of the crash confirmed the aircraft, which was operated by Azerbaijan Airlines, bursting into flames because it hit the bottom and thick black smoke then rising. Bloodied and bruised passengers might be seen stumbling from a bit of the fuselage that had remained intact.
Kazakhstan’s emergencies ministry mentioned in a press release that fireside companies had put out the blaze and that the survivors, together with two kids, have been being handled at a close-by hospital. The our bodies of the useless have been being recovered.
Azerbaijan Airlines mentioned the Embraer 190 jet, with flight quantity J2-8243, was flying from Baku to Grozny, capital of Russia’s Chechnya area, however had been pressured to make an emergency touchdown round 3 km (1.8 miles) from Aktau in Kazakhstan. The metropolis is on the other shore of the Caspian Sea from Azerbaijan and Russia.
Authorities in Kazakhstan mentioned a authorities fee had been set as much as examine what had occurred and its members ordered to fly to the positioning and be certain that the households of the useless and injured have been getting the assistance they wanted.
Kazakhstan would cooperate with Azerbaijan on the investigation, the federal government mentioned.
Russia’s aviation watchdog mentioned in a press release that preliminary info advised the pilot had determined to make an emergency touchdown after a chicken strike.
Following the crash, Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, was returning house from Russia the place he had been because of attend a summit on Wednesday, Russia’s RIA information company reported.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed chief of Chechnya, expressed his condolences in a press release and mentioned a few of these being handled in hospital have been in a particularly severe situation and that he and others would pray for his or her speedy restoration.
