A passenger airplane carrying 67 folks crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday morning after colliding with birds whereas touring from Azerbaijan to Russia, authorities mentioned.
The Azerbaijan Airlines flight, which crashed close to Aktau, a metropolis in southwestern Kazakhstan, had 62 passengers and 5 crew members on board, Kazakhstan’s emergencies ministry mentioned in a publish on Telegram. It mentioned that not less than 28 folks had survived, with some 22 taken to hospital together with two kids.
Russian state information company RIA Novosti reported that the passengers had been 37 Azerbaijani residents, 16 Russians, 6 Kazakh residents, and three Kyrgyz residents, citing the Kazakh Ministry of Transport.
The flight was en route from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny in Russia’s Chechnya area however was diverted to the Russian metropolis of Makhachkala, about 100 miles east of Gronzny, attributable to fog, the press service of the Grozny airport advised Russian state information company TASS.
Chechnyan chief Ramzan Kadyrov expressed his condolences to the households of the deceased passengers in a publish on his Telegram account on Wednesday morning.
The Embraer 190 plane made an emergency touchdown roughly 1.8 miles away from the town of Aktau, based on an announcement launched on Telegram by Azerbaijan Airlines.
A preliminary investigation discovered the airplane collided with birds and was diverted to Aktau attributable to an emergency on board, based on an announcement issued on Telegram by Russia’s aviation authority, Rosaviatsia.
The investigation is ongoing and extra data relating to the incident shall be supplied, Azerbaijan Airlines mentioned in an announcement launched on Telegram.
There was a fireplace on the crash website however this has been “fully extinguished,” Kazakhstan’s emergencies ministry mentioned.
It added {that a} whole of 150 personnel and 45 items of kit had been concerned within the emergency response.