According to the Kazakh Ministry of Transport, a passenger plane belonging to the Kazakh airline Azerbaijan Airlines crashed on Wednesday in western Kazakhstan on its way from the Kazakh capital Baku to Grozny in Russia.
Azerbaijan Airlines, the country’s national airline, said the Embraer 190 made an “emergency landing” about two miles from Aktau, an oil and gas hub on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea.
Kazakhstan’s transport ministry said there were 62 passengers and five crew members on the plane, and the country’s emergency ministry said preliminary information suggested there were survivors.
According to the Ministry of Civil Protection, emergency services extinguished a fire on the site.
