GUWAHATI, Dec 26: A video showing the before-and-after moments of the horrific Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash that killed 38 people has now gone viral. The video shows passengers praying for divine grace as the aero plane takes a steep plunge, crashes and then bursts into a ball of fire and smoke.
Another visual, somewhat disturbing, shows a bleeding passenger attempting to exit the damaged aircraft.
“Footage filmed by a passenger shows people praying and some oxygen masks lowered with damage inside the cabin minutes before the plane crashed and broke apart, with at least 38 people confirmed to have died,” London-headquartered newspaper Daily Mail wrote on Instagram with the video.
Out of the 67 people aboard the ill-fated plane, 29 survived the crash while the condition of 11 of those rescued from the debris in stated to be critical, Kazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister Kanat Bozumbaev reportedly confirmed.
The Chechnya-bound Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday (Dec 25).