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Written by Maria Gordeyeva
ASTANA (Reuters) – An Embraer passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau on Wednesday with 67 passengers and five crew on board, Kazakh authorities announced, saying the people 12 survived.
An unverified video of the crash showed the plane, operated by Azerbaijan Airlines, engulfed in flames as it hit the ground and billowing black smoke.
The Central Asian country’s emergency department said in a statement that fire services had put out the fire and that survivors were being treated at a nearby hospital.
Azerbaijan Airlines said that the Embraer 190, with flight number J2-8243, was flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Chechnya, but was forced to make an emergency landing. 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) from Kazakh village. Aktau.
Russian media said the flight was diverted due to fog in Grozny.
Kazakhstan authorities say they have started looking into various aspects of what happened, including a technical problem, reported Russian news agency Interfax.
