An Embraer passenger jet belonging to Azerbaijan Airlines crashed while en route from Baku to Grozny, resulting in multiple fatalities and injuries.
An Embraer passenger jet flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. Kazakh authorities announced that 32 survivors had been rescued out of 62 passengers and five crew members on board. Another Russian news agency, Interfax quoted medical workers as saying that four bodies have been recovered and emergency workers at the scene as saying that both pilots, according to a preliminary assessment, died in the crash.
The Embraer 190 aircraft made an emergency landing 3 kilometers from the city, Azerbaijan Airlines said earlier. Footage shows responders carrying out rescue operations at the site of Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8432 crash site. Kazakh authorities say there were 12 survivors of the 67 passengers and 5 crew members on board at the time. The Prosecutor General's Office in Azerbaijan later reported that at least 32 people survived the crash, adding that the number wasn't final. Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that some of them were in critical condition. According to Kazakh officials, those aboard the plane included 42 Azerbaijani citizens, 16 Russian nationals, six Kazakh and three Kyrgyz citizens, it said. Azerbaijan Airlines is suspending all its flights from Baku to Chechnya region in Russia until an investigation into a fatal crash involving one of its planes is finished, Russia's state TASS news agency cited the company saying on Wednesday
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