An Azerbaijani Airlines Embraer 190 aircraft crashed in Aktau, Kazakhstan, after a bird strike. At least 28 people survived the crash, with the estimated death toll over 30. Four bodies have been recovered. The plane was en route from Baku to Grozny.
An Azerbaijani airliner has crashed in the Kazakhstan city of Aktau. The country’s Emergency Ministry said that at least 28 people survived the crash, which could mean that over 30 people are likely dead. Four bodies have been recovered. The ministry confirmed in a Telegram statement Wednesday that 67 people, including five crew, were on board the plane.
Russian news agency Interfax cited the ministry as saying that there may be more survivors and quoted medical workers at the scene as saying that four bodies have been recovered. The Embraer 190 aircraft made an emergency landing 3 kilometers from the city, Azerbaijan Airlines said earlier. Kazakhstan’s Emergency Ministry initially said 25 people survived the crash, later revising that number to 27 and then to 28 as the search and rescue operation continued at the site of the crash, bringing the estimated death toll down.The plane was originally scheduled to travel from the Azerbaijan capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus. According to Azerbaijan Airlines, 37 passengers were Azerbaijani citizens. There were also 16 Russian nationals, six Kazakhstani and three Kyrgyzstani citizens, it said. A spokesperson for Russia’s civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, said that preliminary information showed that the pilot had chosen to divert to Aktau after a bird strike on the aircraft led to “an emergency situation on board”.Mobile phone footage circulating online appeared to show the aircraft making a steep descent before smashing into the ground in a fireball. Other footage showed part of its fuselage ripped away from the wings and the rest of the aircraft, lying upside in the grass.Some of the videos posted on social media showed survivors dragging fellow passengers away from the wreckage of the plane. Flight-tracking data from FlightRadar2
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