An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet has crashed during an emergency landing near Aktau in south-west Kazakhstan.
There were reportedly 67 people aboard and many are feared dead. At least 28 people have survived. Dozens have died, the BBC reports.
The jet was flying from the Azerbaijan capital of Baku to Grozny in Chechnya, Russia when it crashed, the Kazakh transport ministry said on Wednesday.
“A plane doing the Baku-Grozny route crashed near the city of Aktau. It belongs to Azerbaijan Airlines,” the ministry said on Telegram.
Azerbaijan Airlines, the country’s flag carrier, said the Embraer 190, designated Flight J28243, had “made an emergency landing” around three kilometres from Aktau, an oil and gas hub on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea.
The Kazakh transport ministry said 62 passengers and five crew members were on the plane.
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