A passenger aircraft from Azerbaijan Airlines burst into flames after crashing close to the Aktau metropolis of Kazakhstan, the nation’s Emergencies Ministry stated.
The Embraer 190 aircraft was en route from Azerbaijan’s capital Baku to Grzony in Russia’s Chechnya however was rerouted resulting from fog in Grozny. Sixty-two passengers have been onboard the aircraft together with 5 crew members. “According to preliminary data, there are 28 survivors of whom 22 have been hospitalised,” the ministry stated on Telegram.
A video confirmed the plane quickly dropping altitude and began banking to its proper. It crashed into an open area and burst into flames.
BREAKING: Azerbaijan Airlines flight touring from Baku to Grozny crashes in Aktau, Kazakhstan, after reportedly requesting an emergency touchdown pic.twitter.com/hB5toqEFe2
— RT (@RT_com) December 25, 2024
The crash came about close to the airport. The aircraft reportedly took a number of circles, requesting an emergency touchdown, however it stalled and crashed.
The Kazakh transport ministry stated that of the aircraft’s passengers, 37 have been from Azerbaijan, six from Kazakhstan, three from Kyrgyzstan and 16 from Russia, AFP reported.
The aircraft transmitted a misery sign earlier than the crash resulting from a collision with a flock of birds and a steering malfunction. The pilots tried to realize velocity and altitude till the very finish, however the controls utterly failed.
Another video confirmed the plane attempting to realize altitude. It quickly ascends however begins stalling. Later the pilot tries to manage the plane to realize peak. The plane began circling close to the airport and later crashed.
Here is a graph with altitude and vertical velocity knowledge for flight #J28243
The plane was struggling to keep up altitude for greater than 1 hour (05:14 UTC to 06:28 UTC) pic.twitter.com/mLItiOkzS1
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) December 25, 2024
“The Embraer 190 plane operated by Azerbaijan Airlines, flight numbered J2-8243 on the Baku-Grozny route, made an emergency touchdown roughly 3 kilometres close to the town of Aktau. Additional data relating to the incident will likely be offered to the general public,” Azerbaijan Airlines stated.
Visuals confirmed ambulances on the crash website and a few folks have been being rescued and deboarding from the emergency exit positioned on the rear finish of the plane. The plane registration quantity, 4K-AZ65, seen within the video matches the information out there on FlightRadar24.
Data from the net flight monitoring web site, FlightRadar24, confirmed the plane flying over the Caspian Sea and heading in the direction of its vacation spot, in Chechnya. The plane entered the territorial borders of Russia and began circling close to the airport, requesting an emergency touchdown. At 6:28 am UTC (11:58 am), the flight crashed close to the Caspian Sea shore, a couple of kilometres away from the airport. FlightRadar24 stated the plane was uncovered to “robust GPS jamming, which made the plane transmit dangerous ADS-B knowledge.”
Flight #J28243 that crashed close to Aktau Airport in Kazakhstan is an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer ERJ-190 with registration 4K-AZ65.#J28243 took off from Baku at 03:55 UTC time and was flying to Grozny. The plane was uncovered to robust GPS jamming which made the plane… pic.twitter.com/rM1Q0jmMPt
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) December 25, 2024
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is a sophisticated surveillance expertise that mixes an plane’s positioning supply, plane avionics, and floor infrastructure to create an correct surveillance interface between plane and Air Traffic Control.
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