Azerbaijan Airlines plane carrying 62 passengers bursts in flames after emergency landing in Kazakhstan

Twenty-five people survived the initial impact of a plane crash in Kazakhstan’s Aqtau city, news agency AFP said Wednesday afternoon. Five, including a 11-year-old boy and a 16-year-old teen, suffered serious injuries. Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Emergencies said 42 had been killed.

The plane – an Azerbaijan Airlines commercial service carrying 62 passengers and five crew -was flying from Baku in that country to Russia’s Grozny.

Fog at the destination caused it to be re-routed to Aqtau, which is around 1800 km away. However, as the plane approached Aqtau International Airport an (as yet) unspecified crisis triggered an emergency landing request. Tragically the aircraft, an Embraer 190, never made it that far.

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It crashed around three km from the airport; horrific videos on social media picked up the plane in a nosedive, losing altitude rapidly, slamming into the ground, and bursting into flames.

Pictures from the crash site revealed a horrific scene – pieces of the fuselage and tail were scattered across a remote and dusty field distinguished by a dirt road zig-zagging through it.

The plane exploded into a ball of fire as it hit the ground, and that blaze kept burning for a while after the impact. Kazakh emergency personnel finally managed to put out the fire.

With input from agencies Link

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