Latest news After plane crash: Day of mourning in Azerbaijan
A day of mourning has begun in Azerbaijan following the crash of a passenger plane in Kazakhstan. The plane with 67 passengers had taken off from the Azerbaijani capital Baku. Flags in Azerbaijan were flown at half-mast, as the Kazakh agency Tengrinews reported, citing local media.
26.12.2024, 07:27
SDA
Cultural events planned for Thursday in theaters and concert halls under the Ministry of Culture have been postponed. According to official information, 38 people died in the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane in Kazakhstan, 29 survived, some of them seriously injured. It is completely unclear why the plane crashed.
The bodies of the passengers and crew members who died will be transferred to Azerbaijan, according to a joint statement from the airline and the Azerbaijani Ministry for Emergency Situations on Platform X.
According to Tengrinews, the injured include Russian, Azerbaijani and Kyrgyz nationals. Nine injured Russian passengers, including a child, were picked up by a special plane to be treated in Moscow, according to the Russian state news agency Tass. Their condition is said to be serious.
The Embraer 190 aircraft took off from Baku on Wednesday morning with its 67 occupants, including five crew members. It was scheduled to fly to Grozny, the capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya. For reasons still unknown, the plane took a course towards the Caspian Sea shortly before landing. In the end, the plane crashed on the coast near Aktau in Kazakhstan.
