Azerbaijan Airlines Passenger Plane Crashes Near the City Aktau in Kazakhstan

Azerbaijan Airlines: A passenger plane crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday and initial reports showed that 25 people survived, the country’s emergency ministry said. The ministry said emergency services were trying to extinguish a fire at the crash site and according to preliminary data 25 people survived.

Local media houses reported that the passenger plane was carrying 67 passengers and five crew members. Azerbaijan Airlines operates a plane that crashed near Aktau while traveling on the Baku-Grozny route, as reported by Kazakhstan’s transport ministry via Telegram.

The Kazakh transport ministry said the plane was carrying 62 passengers and five crew members. Russian news agencies said the plane was flying from Baku to Grozny in Chechnya, Russia, but was diverted due to fog in Grozny.

The country’s flag carrier Azerbaijan Airlines said the Embraer 190 had made an “emergency landing” about three kilometres from Aktau, an oil and gas hub on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea. “Information about casualties is still being clarified, but according to preliminary information, some people survived,” the emergencies ministry said.

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