An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet flying from the Kazakhstan capital, Baku, to Grozny, Russia crashed Wednesday in western Kazakhstan, the Kazakh transport ministry stated.
The nation’s emergency ministry stated the aircraft had 62 passengers and 5 crew members on board and 25 folks survived. Twenty-two had been hospitalized, the ministry stated.
Azerbaijan Airlines, that nation’s flag provider, stated the Embraer 190 had “made an emergency touchdown” round two miles from Aktau, an oil and fuel hub on the jap shore of the Caspian Sea.
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Crews put out a fireplace on the web site, the emergency ministry stated.
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