Lots were eliminated Wednesday after a guest airplane bring 67 individuals from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed in Kazakhstan, authorities stated.
The Azerbaijan Airlines flight, which crashed near Aktau, a city in southwestern Kazakhstan, had 62 guests and 5 team members on board, Kazakhstan’s Emergencies Ministry stated in a post on Telegram. The Kazakh Health Ministry later on released a list of 29 survivors, consisting of 2 kids.
Kazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister Kanat Bozumbayev stated 38 individuals were eliminated in the crash, according to the Kazakh news outlet Tengrinews.
Bozumbayev informed the Tengrinews that the bodies were “primarily charred” and would be required to a morgue for recognition.
The Russian state news firm Ria Novosti reported that the travelers were 37 Azerbaijani people, 16 Russians, 6 Kazakh residents and 3 Kyrgyz people, pointing out the Kazakh Transport Ministry.
Emergency situation professionals operate at the crash site.Issa Tazhenbayev/ AFP – Getty Images
The flight was en path from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny in Russia’s Chechnya area however was diverted to the Russian city of Makhachkala, about 100 miles east of Gronzny, since of fog, journalism service of the Grozny airport informed the Russian state news firm Tass.
The Embraer 190 airplane made an emergency situation landing around 1.8 miles far from the city of Aktau, according to a declaration launched on Telegram by Azerbaijan Airlines.
An initial examination discovered the airplane hit birds and was diverted to Aktau due to the fact that of an emergency situation on board, according to a declaration released on Telegram by Russia’s air travel authority, Rosaviatsia.
The examination is continuous and extra details concerning the occurrence will be supplied, Azerbaijan Airlines stated in a declaration launched on Telegram.
There was a fire at the crash website, however it had actually been “totally snuffed out,” the Kazakh Emergencies Ministry stated.
It included that an overall of 150 workers and 45 systems of devices were associated with the emergency situation action.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin had actually called his Azerbaijani equivalent, Ilham Aliyev, to reveal his acknowledgements.
“We deeply have compassion with those who lost their enjoyed ones in this air crash, and want a fast healing to those who made it through,” Peskov stated, including that Aliyev had actually been required to leave St. Petersburg where he had actually been because of go to a top.
Aliyev stated Thursday a nationwide day of grieving in Azerbaijan.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov revealed his acknowledgements to the households of the departed travelers in a post on his Telegram account Wednesday early morning.
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