Kazakhstan Plane Crash: ‘Death plane’ swallowed many lives in Kazakhstan on Christmas day. There were 72 people on board the plane, including 67 passengers and 5 crew members. There is no official confirmation, but it is said that only 6 passengers aboard this plane are alive after the accident in Kazakhstan. 66 people have died. However, it has come to light that this passenger plane had earlier circled Aktau Airport in Kazakhstan and had sought permission for emergency landing. Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations confirmed that the plane caught fire at the crash site.
The passenger plane that fell victim to the accident belonged to Azerbaijan Airlines. It is said that the crashed aircraft was Embraer E190AR. Before the accident the aircraft circled over Aktau Airport and requested an emergency landing. However, the plane crashed during emergency landing near Aktau Airport. The passenger plane caught fire as soon as it hit the ground. It was seen from a distance that the plane went out of control after landing on the ground and turned into a ball of fire. Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations said emergency teams saw flames on the plane when they arrived at the crash site.
Pictures of plane crash in Kazakhstan are quite scary
Pictures of the plane descending from the sky and crashing on the ground have surfaced on social media. In the pictures, the plane is seen falling on the ground, which turned into a ball of fire as soon as it touched the ground. Some pictures have emerged from a distance, in which black smoke of the plane was visible for several kilometers after it crashed. The wreckage of the plane is seen in another photo.
Plane destined for Russian city reached Kazakhstan
According to media reports, the passenger plane was going from Azerbaijan to Southern Russia. The plane took off from Baku and was headed to Grozny, Chechnya, Russia, but was diverted due to fog in Grozny. According to Russian news agency TASS, Chechnya’s airport confirmed that the plane that took off from Baku, which crashed in Kazakhstan, was diverted first to Makhachkala and then to Aktau due to fog in Grozny.
“The Embraer 190 aircraft operated by Azerbaijan Airlines, flight number J2-8243, was on the Baku-Grozny route,” Azerbaijan Airlines wrote in a post on Twitter. It made an emergency landing at a distance of about 3 kilometers near the city of Aktau. The post further said, ‘More information about the incident will be given soon.’
