LONDON — At the very least 38 individuals are useless and 29 others injured after an Azerbaijan Airways passenger plane crashed close to Kazakhstan’s Aktau Airport near the Caspian Sea on Wednesday morning, a spokesperson for Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Emergency Conditions instructed ABC Information.
The plane was flying from Baku in Azerbaijan to Grozny in Russia, the Transport Ministry mentioned in a submit to its official Telegram channel. It was rerouted to Aktau in Kazakhstan attributable to fog in Grozny, Russian information companies reported.
Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Emergency Conditions instructed ABC Information that the airplane was carrying 69 individuals — 64 passengers and 5 crew members. The ministry mentioned 29 individuals survived the crash, with many hospitalized, together with two youngsters.
The wreckage of Azerbaijan Airways Embraer 190 lays on the bottom close to the airport of Aktau, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024.
AP Photograph/Azamat Sarsenbayev
Kazakhstan’s deputy well being minister instructed ABC Information that a few of these taken to hospital are in important situation.
“The record of useless and injured is being finalized,” the Ministry of Emergency Conditions wrote earlier Wednesday in a Telegram submit.
Preliminary experiences recommend that the crash could have been brought on by a hen strike resulting in engine failure, which necessitated an emergency touchdown try, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Emergency Conditions mentioned.
Among the many passengers had been 37 Azerbaijani residents, six from Kazakhstan, three from Kyrgyzstan and 16 from Russia, the Transport Ministry mentioned in an announcement, citing “preliminary knowledge.”
“The investigation workforce is being supplied with the required help by the workers of the Ministry of Emergency Conditions of Kazakhstan on the scene of the incident,” Maj. Gen. Chingis Arinov, Kazakhstan minister of emergency conditions, mentioned.
Emergency response groups, together with 432 staff and 79 automobiles, and 10 canine models had been deployed to the crash website. Canine groups are concerned within the search operations. Rescuers are working across the clock, utilizing particular gear, the spokesperson mentioned.
Investigations are underway, with aviation authorities from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia are collaborating to find out the precise explanation for the crash, the spokesperson added.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev canceled his deliberate attendance of Wednesday’s Commonwealth of Impartial States assembly in St. Petersburg, Russia, following the crash, based on a readout of a telephone name between Aliyev and Russian President Vladimir Putin printed by the previous’s workplace.
“The heads of state expressed condolences to one another, to the relations and family members of these killed within the airplane crash, amongst whom had been residents of Azerbaijan, Russia and different nations, and wished a speedy restoration to the wounded,” the readout mentioned.
Talking on the St. Petersburg assembly, Putin instructed attendees he had dispatched a workforce from Russia’s personal Emergencies Ministry to Aktau “with medical personnel and the required further gear on board.”
ABC Information’ Tomek Rolski and Ellie Kaufman contributed to this report.
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