Eyewitness video shows moment of plane crash in Kazakhstan
A passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday with 62 passengers and five crew on board, Kazakh authorities announced, saying 28 people survived.
Reuters was able to confirm the location from nearby buildings and a blue stripe on the building that matched satellite imagery and file image.
And a corroborating video shows the same scene. The date was not verified independently. However, information on FlightRadar24.com showed the flight last seen near Aktau airport on Wednesday.
The Central Asian country's emergencies ministry said in a statement that fire services had put out the blaze and that survivors were being treated at a nearby hospital.
Azerbaijan Airlines said the Embraer 190 aircraft, with flight number J2-8243, had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia's Chechnya, but had been forced to make an emergency landing approximately 3 km (1.8 miles) from the Kazakh city of Aktau.
Russian news agencies said the plane had been rerouted due to fog in Grozny.
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.
(By Reuters)
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