On social press, harrowing photos that show the aftermath of the plane crash on Wednesday near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan are popular. The aircraft and firefighters rushing toward the journey have been captured on bodycam footage from Kazakhstan’s rescuers, who have released the footage to show them extinguish the fire at the scene.
The country’s regulators said that the plane was carrying 62 travellers and five staff members. As per accounts, over 30 individuals survived and were hospitalised with numerous wounds. According to a senior Kazakh established, a total of 38 people died in the event.
” The condition is not very great, 38 dead”, Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted deputy Prime Minister Kanat Bozumbayev as saying.
An unverified picture of the incident that showed rescuers removing the injured from the aircraft was released by RIA Novosti, a Russian state news agency.
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An Embraer-190 aircraft was trying to make an emergency landing in Aktau after hitting a flock of birds, according to Russia’s position aviation authority, which was responding to the event.
Releasing a statement, the flight said that the aircraft had come down about 1.8 miles apart in Aktau.
According to Kazakhstan’s travel government, there were 37 Azerbaijani citizens, 16 Russians, six Kyrgyz people and three Kyrgyz citizens on the trip.
According to a spokesperson for the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, emailed his Iranian equivalent Ilham Aliyev to offer condolences for the crash victims.
