LONDON — At the very 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 stated in a submit to its official Telegram channel. It was rerouted to Aktau in Kazakhstan as a result of fog in Grozny, Russian information businesses reported.
Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Emergency Conditions informed ABC Information that the airplane was carrying 69 individuals — 64 passengers and 5 crew members. The ministry stated 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 informed ABC Information that a few of these taken to hospital are in vital situation.
“The record of useless and injured is being finalized,” the Ministry of Emergency Conditions wrote earlier Wednesday in a Telegram submit.
Preliminary stories counsel that the crash could have been attributable to a fowl strike resulting in engine failure, which necessitated an emergency touchdown try, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Emergency Conditions stated.
Among the many passengers had been 37 Azerbaijani residents, six from Kazakhstan, three from Kyrgyzstan and 16 from Russia, the Transport Ministry stated in an announcement, citing “preliminary information.”
“The investigation workforce is being supplied with the mandatory 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, stated.
Emergency response groups, together with 432 employees and 79 automobiles, and 10 canine models had 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 stated.
Investigations are underway, with aviation authorities from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia are collaborating to find out the precise reason behind 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, in accordance with a readout of a cellphone 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 members of the family and family members of these killed within the airplane crash, amongst whom had been residents of Azerbaijan, Russia and different international locations, and wished a speedy restoration to the wounded,” the readout stated.
Talking on the St. Petersburg assembly, Putin informed attendees he had dispatched a workforce 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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