An Azerbaijan Airlines traveler jet with 67 people aboard collapsed on Wednesday in western Kazakhstan after drifting from its arrange course, authorities acknowledged.
Azerbaijani authorities acknowledged 32 people had really made it by the accident of the Embraer 190 close to town of Aktau, an oil and gasoline heart on the japanese coast of the Caspian Sea.
The airplane was flying from the Azerbaijani funding Baku on the western coast of the Caspian to town of Grozny in Chechnya in southerly Russia.
“A plane doing the Baku-Grozny route crashed near the city of Aktau. It belongs to Azerbaijan Airlines,” the Kazakh transportation ministry acknowledged on Telegram.
Azerbaijan Airlines, the nation’s flag supplier, acknowledged the airplane had 62 company and 5 crew aboard.
It acknowledged the airplane “made an emergency landing” round 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) from Aktau.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev terminated an supposed try to Russia for an off-the-cuff prime of leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a set of earlier Soviet international locations.
The Kazakh transportation ministry acknowledged the airplane was lugging 37 nationals from Azerbaijan, 6 from Kazakhstan, 3 from Kyrgyzstan and 16 from Russia.
The office of Azerbaijan’s district lawyer common acknowledged: “According to available data, 32 people survived the crash.”
“We cannot disclose any investigation results at this time. All possible scenarios are being examined, and the necessary expert analyses are underway,” it acknowledged in a declaration.
“An investigative team, led by the deputy prosecutor general of Azerbaijan, has been dispatched to Kazakhstan and is working at the crash site.”
– Doctors flown to web site –
The Kazakh emergency scenario situations ministry acknowledged its personnel produced a hearth which burst out when the airplane collapsed.
The ministry beforehand reported that “28 survivors including two children have been hospitalised.”
It acknowledged 150 emergency scenario workers went to the scene.
The wellness ministry acknowledged an distinctive journey was being despatched out from the Kazakh funding Astana with skilled medical professionals to take care of the wounded.
Aliyev’s office acknowledged the top of state “ordered the prompt initiation of urgent measures to investigate the causes of the disaster.”
“I extend my condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in the crash… and wish a speedy recovery to the injured,” Aliyev acknowledged in a social networks article.
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone name with Aliyev and moreover “expressed his condolences in connection with the crash,” his consultant Dmitry Peskov knowledgeable a press convention.
Azerbaijan’s very first lady Mehriban Aliyeva, that’s moreover the nation’s very first Vice President, acknowledged she was “deeply saddened by the news of the tragic loss of lives in the plane crash near Aktau.”
“I extend my heartfelt condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims. Wishing them strength and patience! I also wish a speedy recovery to the injured,” she acknowledged on Instagram.
“I express my condolences to the relatives of the passengers of the Azerbaijan Airlines jet who died,” Chechen chief Ramzan Kadyrov acknowledged on Telegram.
The airplane’s coaching course on Flight Radar revealed it going throughout the Caspian Sea removed from its common course and after that circling round over the placement the place it finally collapsed.
Kazakhstan acknowledged it had really opened up an examination.
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