Azerbaijan Airlines, whose plane crashed under the Kazakhstan city of Aktau, decided to suspend flights from Azerbaijani Baku to Grozny and Makhachkala until the investigation of the causes of the vessel crash.
This was reported by the press service of the company.
According to this information, flights in the rest of the AZAL areas are carried out according to the staffing table.
On the morning of December 25, Azerbaijan Airlines, which was heading from Baku to Grozny, crashed near the Kazakhstan city of Aktau.
There were 67 people on board at the time of the crash, including five crew members. Representatives of the airline said that after the crash of the aircraft, 32 people survived.
Emergency landing in Aktau
In the morning, December 25, the Embraer aircraft 190 J2-824 number gave a emergency signal, being above the Caspian Sea. Information about this was received at 11.00 in the regional emergency. Later it became known about the emergency landing of the aircraft 3 kilometers from the city of Aktau.
The ministers of the Ministry of Emergencies and transport of Azerbaijan and the head of the Ministry of Emergencies of Kazakhstan
arrived at the scene
According to Azerbaijan Airlines, there were 67 people on board, including 5 crew members. Among the passengers: 6 citizens of Kazakhstan, 42 citizens of Azerbaijan, 3 citizens of Kyrgyzstan, 16 citizens of Russia, one person’s citizenship is specified. All crew members are Azerbaijani citizens.
As a result of the incident, 29 people were hospitalized, including 3 children. Of these: 15 citizens of Azerbaijan, 9 citizens of Russia, 2 citizens of Kyrgyzstan, and 3 people are specified.
571 appeal was received on the hotline.
by order of the akimat of the Tupkargan district, an emergency regime of local scale was introduced.
In the elimination of the consequences, 482 people, 97 units of equipment, 2 aircraft and 10 cynological calculations are involved.
Search and rescue work continues with the participation of the dogological services of the Ministry of Emergencies.
In video conferencing mode, coordination and exchange of information between the Ministry of Emergencies of Kazakhstan, Russia and Azerbaijan is carried out.