BREAKING NEWS Horrific moment Azerbaijan airlines plane crashes with 72 on board in Christmas Day fireball in Kazakhstan

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Posted on 12/25/2024 12:32:10 AM PST by CFW

This is the horrific moment a passenger plane hit the ground in a fireball in a Christmas Day crash landing in Kazakhstan.

There were 67 passengers and five crew members on board the Azerbaijan airlines fight from Azerbaijan capital Baku to Russian city Grozny.

Footage of the crash showed the plane bursting into flames as it hit the ground and thick black smoke then rising

The plane was in flames and broke into several parts on landing in Aktau, in western Kazakhstan. The country's emergency situations ministry said its personnel were putting out a fire at the site.

'At the moment, 14 survivors have been taken to the regional hospital, including five in intensive care,' the health ministry's regional department said in a statement.

Azerbaijan Airlines, the country's flag carrier, said the Embraer 190 had 'made an emergency landing' around three kilometres from Aktau, an oil and gas hub on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea.

'A plane doing the Baku-Grozny route crashed near the city of Aktau. It belongs to Azerbaijan Airlines,' the Kazakh ministry said on Telegram.

The Embraer E190AR with registration number 4K-AZ65 sent out a distress signal at an altitude of 2,125 feet over the Caspian Sea.

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Wow! It's amazing that there are survivors.

1 posted on 12/25/2024 12:32:10 AM PST by CFW

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