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Authorities says 14 survivors hospitalised after Azerbaijan Airways airplane crashes close to the town of Aktau.
An passenger airplane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed close to the town of Aktau in Kazakhstan, the Central Asian nation’s Emergencies Ministry mentioned in an announcement.
Fourteen individuals had survived the crash and had been hospitalised, in accordance 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 mentioned in an announcement. The Emergencies Ministry mentioned hearth companies had put out the blaze.
Azerbaijan Airways mentioned 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.
Russian information companies mentioned the airplane had been rerouted because of fog in Grozny.
Authorities in Kazakhstan mentioned they’d begun trying into completely different potential variations of what had occurred, together with a technical downside, Russia’s Interfax information company reported.
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