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Authorities says 14 survivors hospitalised after Azerbaijan Airways aircraft crashes close to town of Aktau.
An passenger aircraft flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed close to town of Aktau in Kazakhstan, the Central Asian nation’s Emergencies Ministry stated in a press release.
Fourteen folks had survived the crash and had been hospitalised, in keeping with the native well being officers.
“In the intervening time, 14 survivors have been taken to the regional hospital, together with 5 in intensive care,” the well being ministry’s regional division stated in a press release. The Emergencies Ministry stated fireplace providers had put out the blaze.
Authorities stated 62 folks and 5 crew had been on the aircraft when it crashed.
Azerbaijan Airways stated the Embraer 190 plane, with flight quantity J2-8243, had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Chechnya, however had been compelled to make an emergency touchdown roughly 3 km (1.8 miles) from the Kazakh metropolis of Aktau.
“In accordance with preliminary stories, the aircraft requested touchdown at another airport earlier than the accident … as a consequence of heavy fog in Grozny,” Al Jazeera’s Yulia Shapovalova reported from Moscow.
Authorities in Kazakhstan stated that they had begun wanting into completely different potential variations of what had occurred, together with a technical drawback, Russia’s Interfax information company reported.
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