LONDON — At the least 38 persons 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 informed ABC Information.
The plane was flying from Baku in Azerbaijan to Grozny in Russia, the Transport Ministry mentioned in a put up to its official Telegram channel. It was rerouted to Aktau in Kazakhstan attributable to fog in Grozny, Russian information businesses reported.
Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Emergency Conditions informed ABC Information that the airplane was carrying 69 folks — 64 passengers and 5 crew members. The ministry mentioned 29 folks survived the crash, with many hospitalized, together with two kids.
The wreckage of Azerbaijan Airways Embraer 190 lays on the bottom close to the airport of Aktau, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024.
AP Picture/Azamat Sarsenbayev
Kazakhstan’s deputy well being minister informed ABC Information that a few of these taken to hospital are in essential situation.
“The listing of useless and injured is being finalized,” the Ministry of Emergency Conditions wrote earlier Wednesday in a Telegram put up.
Preliminary experiences recommend that the crash could have been attributable to 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 have 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 group is being supplied with the mandatory help by the staff 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 employees and 79 automobiles, and 10 canine items have been deployed to the crash web site. 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 Unbiased States assembly in St. Petersburg, Russia, following the crash, in keeping with a readout of a cellphone name between Aliyev and Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed by the previous’s workplace.
“The heads of state expressed condolences to one another, to the members of the family and family members of these killed within the airplane crash, amongst whom have been residents of Azerbaijan, Russia and different international locations, and wished a speedy restoration to the wounded,” the readout mentioned.
Talking on the St. Petersburg assembly, Putin informed attendees he had dispatched a group from Russia’s personal Emergencies Ministry to Aktau “with medical personnel and the mandatory extra gear on board.”
ABC Information’ Tomek Rolski and Ellie Kaufman contributed to this report.
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