A passenger airplane carrying 67 folks crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday morning after colliding with birds whereas touring from Azerbaijan to Russia, authorities stated.
The Azerbaijan Airlines flight, which crashed close to Aktau, a metropolis in southwestern Kazakhstan, had 62 passengers and 5 crew members on board, Kazakhstan’s emergencies ministry stated in a put up on Telegram. It stated that there have been “25 survivors, 22 of whom had been taken to hospital.”
Russian state information company RIA Novosti reported that the passengers: had been 37 Azerbaijani residents, 16 Russians, 6 Kazakh residents, and three Kyrgyz residents, citing the Kazakh Ministry of Transport.
The flight was en route from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny in Russia’s Chechnya area however was diverted to the Russian metropolis of Makhachkala, about 100 miles east of Gronzny, attributable to fog, the press service of the Grozny airport advised Russian state information company TASS.
Chechnyan chief Ramzan Kadyrov expressed his condolences to the households of the deceased passengers in a put up on his Telegram account on Wednesday morning.
The Embraer 190 plane made an emergency touchdown roughly 1.8 miles away from the town of Aktau, based on a press release launched on Telegram by Azerbaijan Airlines.
A preliminary investigation discovered the airplane collided with birds and was diverted to Aktau attributable to an emergency on board, based on a press release issued on Telegram by Russia’s aviation authority, Rosaviatsia.
The investigation is ongoing and extra data concerning the incident will probably be offered, Azerbaijan Airlines stated in a press release launched on Telegram.
There was a hearth on the crash website however this has been “fully extinguished,” based on the official Telegram channel of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations.
52 rescuers and 11 models of kit arrived on the crash website, based on a put up on Telegram by Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations.
