By Mariya Gordeyeva
ASTANA (Reuters) -An Embraer passenger airplane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed close to town of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday with 67 passengers and 5 crew on board, Kazakh authorities introduced, saying 12 folks had survived.
Unverified video of the crash confirmed the airplane, which was operated by Azerbaijan Airways, bursting into flames because it hit the bottom and thick black smoke then rising.
The Central Asian nation’s emergencies ministry stated in an announcement that fireplace companies had put out the blaze and that survivors had been being handled at a close-by hospital.
Azerbaijan Airways stated the Embraer 190 plane, with flight quantity J2-8243, had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Chechnya, however had been pressured to make an emergency touchdown roughly 3 km (1.8 miles) from the Kazakh metropolis of Aktau.
Russian information companies stated the airplane had been rerouted as a consequence of fog in Grozny.
Authorities in Kazakhstan stated they’d begun trying into completely different potential variations of what had occurred, together with a technical downside, Russia’s Interfax information company reported.
