A passenger aircraft from Azerbaijan Airways burst into flames after crashing close to the Aktau metropolis of Kazakhstan, the nation’s Emergencies Ministry mentioned.
The Embraer 190 plane was en route from Azerbaijan’s capital Baku to Grzony in Russia’s Chechnya however was rerouted because of fog in Grozny. Sixty-two passengers have been onboard the aircraft together with 5 crew members. “In keeping with preliminary data, there are 25 survivors of whom 22 have been hospitalised,” the ministry mentioned on Telegram.
A video confirmed the plane quickly dropping altitude and began banking to its proper. It crashed into an open area and burst into flames.
BREAKING: Azerbaijan Airways flight touring from Baku to Grozny crashes in Aktau, Kazakhstan, after reportedly requesting an emergency touchdown pic.twitter.com/hB5toqEFe2
— RT (@RT_com) December 25, 2024
The crash passed off close to the airport. The aircraft reportedly took a number of circles, requesting an emergency touchdown, nevertheless it stalled and crashed.
The aircraft transmitted a misery sign earlier than the crash because of a collision with a flock of birds and a steering malfunction. The pilots tried to realize pace and altitude till the very finish, however the controls utterly failed.
One other video confirmed the plane making an attempt to realize altitude. It quickly ascends however begins stalling. Later the pilot tries to regulate the plane to realize top. The plane began circling close to the airport and later crashed.
“The Embraer 190 plane operated by Azerbaijan Airways, flight numbered J2-8243 on the Baku-Grozny route, made an emergency touchdown roughly 3 kilometres close to town of Aktau. Further data concerning the incident will likely be offered to the general public,” Azerbaijan Airways mentioned.
Visuals confirmed ambulances on the crash website and a few folks have been being rescued and deboarding from the emergency exit situated on the rear finish of the plane. The plane registration quantity, 4K-AZ65, seen within the video matches the information out there on FlightRadar24.
Information from the net flight monitoring web site, FlightRadar24, confirmed the plane flying over the Caspian Sea and heading in the direction of its vacation spot, in Chechnya. The plane entered the territorial borders of Russia and began circling close to the airport, requesting an emergency touchdown. At 6:28 am UTC (11:58 am), the flight crashed close to the Caspian Sea shore, a couple of kilometres away from the airport. FlightRadar24 mentioned the plane was uncovered to “sturdy GPS jamming, which made the plane transmit unhealthy ADS-B information.”
Flight #J28243 that crashed close to Aktau Airport in Kazakhstan is an Azerbaijan Airways Embraer ERJ-190 with registration 4K-AZ65.#J28243 took off from Baku at 03:55 UTC time and was flying to Grozny. The plane was uncovered to sturdy GPS jamming which made the plane… pic.twitter.com/rM1Q0jmMPt
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) December 25, 2024
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is a complicated surveillance expertise that mixes an plane’s positioning supply, plane avionics, and floor infrastructure to create an correct surveillance interface between plane and Air Visitors Management.
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