Kazakhstan: There is news of an Azerbaijani plane crash in Kazakhstan. There were 67 passengers on board. The plane caught fire after it crashed. Relief and rescue teams are on the spot. Full details are awaited. A video shows the plane falling rapidly from a height and starting to tilt to the right. Later it crashed into an open field and burst into flames.
It is being said that it was a passenger plane of Azerbaijan Airlines, which crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan. After this it burst into flames. This Embraer 190 plane was going from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Gruzony in Chechnya, Russia, but its route was changed due to fog there. There were 62 passengers on board the plane along with five crew members. Now information is coming that some people have survived the accident. But a large number of people have died.
The accident happened near the airport
According to the information, this accident happened very close to the airport. The plane reportedly made several rounds requesting an emergency landing, but it suddenly stopped and crashed. After this, ambulances appeared at the accident site. Relief and rescue teams were successful in saving some people there. Some people were seen getting down from the emergency exit located at the rear of the plane. The aircraft registration number seen in the video, 4K-AZ65, matches the data available on FlightRadar24.
It was flying over the Caspian Sea at the time of the accident
Data from online flight tracking website FlightRadar24 shows that the plane was flying over the Caspian Sea before it crashed. It was moving towards its destination in Chechnya. But the pilot of the plane, feeling the danger, was seen requesting an emergency landing and circling near the airport after entering the territorial border of Russia. The incident happened on Wednesday at 6:28 am UTC (11:58 am). The plane crashed a few kilometres from the airport and near the Caspian Sea coast