An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet flying from the Kazakhstan capital, Baku, to Grozny, Russia crashed Wednesday in western Kazakhstan, the Kazakh transport ministry said.
The country’s emergency ministry said the plane had 62 passengers and five crew members on board and 25 people survived the crash. Twenty-two were hospitalized, the ministry said.
Azerbaijan Airlines, that country’s flag carrier, said the Embraer 190 had “made an emergency landing” around two miles from Aktau, an oil and gas hub on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea.
Map shows site of Dec. 25, 2024 plane crash in Kazakhstan. / Credit: Murat Usubali / Anadolu via Getty Images
Crews put out a fire at the site, the emergency ministry said.
A drone view shows the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan on Dec. 25, 2024. / Credit: Azamat Sarsenbayev / REUTERS
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