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By Maria Gordeeva
ASTANA (Reuters) – An Embraer passenger aircraft flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed on Wednesday close to the town of Aktau in Kazakhstan with 62 passengers and 5 crew on board, Kazakh authorities introduced, saying 28 individuals had been survivors.
Unverified video of the crash confirmed that the aircraft, operated by Azerbaijan Airlines, caught fireplace when it hit the bottom and thick black smoke billowed. Bloody and bruised passengers could possibly be seen stumbling from an intact piece of the fuselage.
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Kazakhstan’s emergencies ministry mentioned in an announcement that firefighters put out the fireplace and that survivors, together with two kids, had been handled at a close-by hospital. The our bodies of the useless had been being recovered.
Azerbaijan Airlines reported that the Embraer 190 aircraft, with flight quantity J2-8243, was flying from Baku to Grozny, capital of the Russian area of Chechnya, however was pressured to make an emergency touchdown about 3 km away ( 1.8 miles) from Aktau in Kazakhstan. The metropolis is positioned on the other shore of the Caspian Sea from Azerbaijan and Russia.
Kazakh authorities mentioned a authorities fee had been set as much as examine the incident and its members had been ordered to the scene to make sure that the households of the useless and injured obtained the assistance they wanted.
Kazakhstan will cooperate with Azerbaijan within the investigation, the federal government mentioned.
Russia’s aviation watchdog mentioned in an announcement that preliminary info instructed the pilot had determined to make an emergency touchdown after a chicken strike.
After the incident, Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, was returning house from Russia the place he was resulting from attend a summit on Wednesday, Russian information company RIA reported.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed chief of Chechnya, expressed his condolences in an announcement and mentioned a few of these hospitalized had been in extraordinarily severe situation and that he and others would pray for his or her speedy recoveries.
(Reporting by Mariya Gordeyeva and Tamara Vaal in Astana, Nailia Bagirova and Buro in MoscowWriting by Andrew OsbornEditing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise and Peter Graff)
