ASTANA: An Embraer passenger airplane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed close to town of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday (Dec 25) with 67 passengers and 5 crew on board, Kazakh authorities introduced, saying 12 individuals had survived.
Unverified video of the crash confirmed the airplane, which was operated by Azerbaijan Airways, bursting into flames because it hit the bottom and thick black smoke then rising.
The Central Asian nation’s emergencies ministry mentioned in a press release that fireside providers had put out the blaze and that survivors had been being handled at a close-by hospital.
Azerbaijan Airways mentioned the Embraer 190 plane, with flight quantity J2-8243, had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Chechnya, however had been pressured to make an emergency touchdown about 3km from the Kazakh metropolis of Aktau.
Russian information companies mentioned the airplane had been rerouted as a result of fog in Grozny.
Authorities in Kazakhstan mentioned they’d begun wanting into totally different attainable variations of what had occurred, together with a technical drawback, Russia’s Interfax information company reported.
