A Christmas Day horror Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Kazakhstan has left 42 feared dead and 14 hospitalised.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the Azerbaijan Airlines plane with flight number J2-8243 crashed near Aktau Airport in Kazakhstan.
It was gathered that the plane is an Embraer ERJ-190 with registration 4K-AZ65.
According to Flight Radar, the aircraft took off from Baku at 03:55 UTC time and was flying to Grozny.
“The aircraft was exposed to strong GPS jamming which made the aircraft transmit bad ADS-B data.
“At 04:40 UTC we lost the ADS-B signal. At 06:07 UTC we picked up the ADS-B signal again before it crashed at 06:28 UTC,” Flight Radar disclosed.
A video is currently trending on social media that shows the moment the plane losing altitude and making a rapid descent before it crashed and burst into flames.
TNG reports the Azerbaijan Airlines plane, that crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, had 67 passengers onboard and was flying from Baku to Grozny in Russia’s Chechnya.
The plane had reportedly requested an emergency landing before the incident.
The flight was carrying 67 passengers onboard, including five crew members.
According to reports, the plane was flying from Baku to Grozny in Russia’s Chechnya.
However, it was re-routed due to a fog in Grozny.
“A plane doing the Baku-Grozny route crashed near the city of Aktau. It belongs to Azerbaijan Airlines,” the Kazakh transport ministry said.
Kazakhstan’s emergency ministry says 42 people have likely died in the Azerbaijan Airlines’ plane crash, news agency AP reported.
Preliminary data shows 25 people have survived the crash, according to news agency Reuters which cited Kazakh authorities.
Fourteen survivors of the Azerbaijan Airlines crash in western Kazakhstan have been hospitalised, news agency AFP reported, citing local health officials.
“At the moment, 14 survivors have been taken to the regional hospital, including five in intensive care,” the report cited the health ministry’s regional department as having said in a statement.