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BREAKING NEWS|TAP TO VIEW THE FULL V!DEO, FATHER ARRESTED FOR BEHE4DING HIS 1 YEAH OLD SON AND CAUSING INJURY TO HIS WIFE AND MOTHER IN-LAW.Authorities says 28 survivors hospitalised after Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed near the city of Aktau. ...Tap To Read The Full Story Here | ..Tap To Read The Full Story Here...
A passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia has crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan, the Central Asian country’s Ministry of Emergency Situations said in a statement.
Flight number J2-8243, an Embraer 190 aircraft with 62 passengers and five crew members on board, was forced to make an emergency landing about 3km (1.8 miles) from Aktau.
Twenty-eight people, including three children, survived the crash and were hospitalised, according to health officials. Four bodies have been recovered.
The Emergencies Ministry said fire services had put out the blaze.
“According to preliminary reports, the plane requested landing at an alternative airport before the accident … due to heavy fog in Grozny,” Al Jazeera’s Yulia Shapovalova reported from Moscow.
Passengers on the plane included citizens from Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, Shapovalova added.
Russia’s aviation watchdog said in a statement that preliminary information suggested the pilot had decided to make an emergency landing after a bird strike.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has cut short a visit to Russia – where he was due to attend a summit on Wednesday – Russia’s RIA news agency reported.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed leader of Chechnya, expressed his condolences in a statement and said those hospitalised were in an extremely serious condition and that he and others would pray for their rapid recovery.BREAKING NEWS|TAP TO VIEW THE FULL V!DEO, FATHER ARRESTED FOR BEHE4DING HIS 1 YEAH OLD SON AND CAUSING INJURY TO HIS WIFE AND MOTHER IN-LAW.
Authorities in Kazakhstan said they had begun looking into different possible versions of what had happened, including a technical problem, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported...Tap To Read The Full Story Here.
