
An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane carrying dozens of passengers crashed in western Kazakhstan on Wednesday, the Kazakh Ministry of Transport said. It was flying from Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya in Russia, when it crashed near the city of Aktau, the ministry said.
Kazakhstan’s emergency ministry said there were 62 passengers and five crew members on board, and that 25 people survived. Twenty-two were hospitalized, the ministry announced.
Azerbaijan Airlines, the country’s national carrier, said the Embraer 190 made an “emergency landing” about three miles from Aktau, an oil and gas hub on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea.
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Crews extinguished the fire at that location, the Ministry of Emergency Situations announced.
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