According to the airline, 62 passengers and five crew were on board and the plane attempted to make an emergency landing about three kilometers from Aktau, a port on the Caspian Sea.
The accident with an Azerbaijan Airlines plane in Kazakhstan killed 38 people this Wednesday, said the country’s deputy prime minister, Kanat Bozumbaev, quoted by the media.
“The situation is not good, 38 dead,” declared Kazakhstan’s deputy prime minister during a meeting with representatives of Azerbaijan, quoted by the Russian agency Interfax. The same number of fatalities was reported by the pro-government website Tengrinews.
The Embraer 190 was flying between Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan and Grozny, the capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya and had 67 people on board, but the circumstances of the accident have not yet been clarified.
The country’s Ministry of Emergency Situations indicated on the Telegram network that “29 people are hospitalized, including three children.”
The Azerbaijani Public Prosecutor’s Office had previously reported that 32 people survived, without indicating the death toll.
According to the airline, 62 passengers and five crew were on board and the plane attempted to make an emergency landing about three kilometers from Aktau, a port on the Caspian Sea.
The device ended up hitting the ground and caught fire.
