A major plane accident has occurred in Kazakhstan. Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane crashed during landing. There were 67 people on board the plane, including five crew members.
This plane was going from Baku in Azerbaijan to Chechnya in Russia. Kazakhstan government says 42 people have died in Azerbaijan plane crash. 25 people managed to survive in this incident. Kazakhstan’s emergency services say that the fire from the plane crash has been completely extinguished.
Many videos of this incident are going viral on social media, in which it can be seen that a massive fire breaks out in the plane during landing. After this the entire plane starts burning. Many reasons are emerging for the plane’s crash.
On this entire incident, Azerbaijan Airlines issued a statement saying that the plane that crashed was an Embraer 190 aircraft. Its number was J2-8243. This plane going from Baku to Gronji route had to make emergency landing. The plane crashed during emergency landing three kilometers away from Akatu.
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Flight #J28243 that crashed near Aktau Airport in Kazakhstan is an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer ERJ-190 with registration 4K-AZ65.#J28243 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… pic.twitter.com/rM1Q0jmMPt
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) December 25, 2024
What is the speculation regarding the crash?
Some reports say that this incident happened due to a possible technical glitch. It is being said that the plane was being landed due to dense fog. Some reports say that this accident happened due to bird collision. But the real reasons are being ascertained. The survivors of this incident have been taken to a nearby hospital.