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Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashes near Kazakhstan's Aktau Airport

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ASTANA, Kazakhstan — An Embraer passenger jet flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday with 62 passengers and five crew on board, Kazakh authorities announced, saying 32 survivors had been rescued.

Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 had flown hundreds of miles off its scheduled route to crash on the opposite shore of the Caspian Sea near the city of Aktau after what Russia's aviation watchdog said was an emergency that may have been caused by a bird strike.

Reuters was able to verify from visible landmarks that the video was filmed on the Caspian shore near Aktau.

Kazakhstan's emergencies ministry said in a statement that fire services had put out the blaze and that the survivors, including two children, were being treated at a nearby hospital. The bodies of the dead were being recovered.

Azerbaijan Airlines said the Embraer 190 jet was flying from Baku to Grozny, capital of the Chechnya region in southern Russia, but had been forced to make an emergency landing around 1.8 miles from Aktau in Kazakhstan.

"Preliminary: after a collision with birds, due to an emergency situation on board, its commander decided to 'go' to an alternate airfield - Aktau was chosen," Russia's aviation watchdog said on Telegram.

 

Half the people on board survived that? Wow. Looked like Sioux City crash when the wing came up. 

1.  Fly the airplane. 

No kidding. Looked like they had some control and just flew it into the ground. 

If the pictures I see are correct it looks like it may have been hit by AAA or something so they may have had hydraulic control issues. 
 

Looks like there was also a decompression of some sort.  Pictures coming out of Oxygen mask deployed prior to landing.  It will be interesting to see what else comes out. 

20 minutes ago, Leeroy Jenkins said:

If the pictures I see are correct it looks like it may have been hit by AAA or something so they may have had hydraulic control issues. 
 

Looks like there was also a decompression of some sort.  Pictures coming out of Oxygen mask deployed prior to landing.  It will be interesting to see what else comes out. 

I just saw those pics. Definitely shrapnel from something. Probably an AA missile with some type of proximity air burst. 

Not a bird strike. Unless they were carrying grenades. 

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