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Plane en route from Azerbaijan to Russia crashes near Aktau; 29 survive crash
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=> The wreckage of the plane near Aktau, Kazakhstan
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The wreckage of the plane near Aktau, Kazakhstan
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Kazakhstan officials say 38 people have died after an Azerbaijani airliner crashed on Wednesday near the Kazakhstan city of Aktau.
Deputy Prime Minister Kanat Bozumbaev disclosed the death toll while meeting with Azerbaijani officials, the Russian news agency Interfax reported.
Azerbaijan’s prosecutor general’s office said previously that 32 of the 67 people on board the plane had survived.
The Embraer 190 was en route from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus.
Preliminary information showed that the pilots diverted to Aktau after a bird strike led to an emergency on board, Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti quoted Russia’s civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, as saying.
Kazakhstan’s Emergency Ministry said in a Telegram statement that those onboard included five crew. A total of 29 survivors, including two children, have been hospitalized, the ministry told RIA Novosti.
Another Russian news agency, Interfax, quoted medical workers as saying that four bodies have been recovered and emergency workers at the scene as saying that both pilots died.
The plane crashed while attempting an emergency landing 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) from Aktau, Azerbaijan Airlines said.
Aircraft faced GPS jamming, claims FlightRadar24
- n Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that the weather had forced the plane to change from its planned course
- n Plane carried 42 Azerbaijani citizens, 16 Russian nationals, six Kazakhstani and three Kyrgyzstani citizens
- n Preliminary information showed the pilot had chosen to divert to Kazakhstan’s Aktau after a bird strike on aircraft led to ‘emergency situation on board’
- n FlightRadar24 separately said in an online post that the aircraft had faced ‘strong GPS jamming’