By Mariya Gordeyeva
ASTANA (Reuters) – An Embraer passenger aircraft flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed close to town of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday with 62 passengers and 5 crew on board, Kazakh authorities introduced, saying that 27 folks had survived.
Unverified video of the crash confirmed the aircraft, which was operated by Azerbaijan Airways, bursting into flames because it hit the bottom and thick black smoke then rising. Bloodied and bruised passengers may very well be seen stumbling from a chunk of the fuselage that had remained intact.
The Central Asian nation’s emergencies ministry mentioned in a press release that fireplace companies had put out the blaze and that the survivors, together with three youngsters, 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 roughly 3 km (1.8 miles) from the Kazakh metropolis of Aktau.
Russian information companies mentioned the aircraft had been rerouted attributable to fog in Grozny.
Authorities in Kazakhstan mentioned they’d begun trying into totally different potential variations of what had occurred, together with a technical drawback, Russia’s Interfax information company reported.
Russia’s aviation watchdog mentioned in a press release that preliminary info steered the pilot had determined to make an emergency touchdown after a fowl strike.
Following the crash, Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, was returning house from Russia the place he had been attributable to attend a summit on Wednesday, Russia’s RIA information company reported.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed chief of Chechnya, expressed his condolences in a press release and mentioned these being handled in hospital had been in a particularly critical situation and that he and others would pray for his or her fast restoration.
