BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 25. 14 Azerbaijani
residents survived the crash of the Azerbaijan Airways airplane close to
Aktau, the Minister of Transport of Kazakhstan Marat Karabayev stated
this at a briefing held right this moment.
“Among the many passengers there have been 37 residents of Azerbaijan, 23
of them died, 14 survived. There have been 3 folks from Kyrgyzstan,
they survived. On the identical time, there have been 16 residents of Russia,
7 of them died and 9 survived. There have been additionally 6 passengers from
Kazakhstan, they died,” the minister stated.
He additionally famous that each pilots died.
“Three extra crew members survived,” M. Karabayev stated.
Earlier right this moment, a passenger airplane Embraer 190, flying on the
Baku-Grozny route, crashed 3 km from Aktau airport. In accordance with
preliminary knowledge, 37 residents of Azerbaijan, 6 residents of
Kazakhstan, 3 residents of Kyrgyzstan, and 16 residents of Russia
have been on board the airplane.
AZAL introduced that 62 passengers, 5 crew members, and a complete
of 67 folks have been on board the Embraer 190 airplane flying
Baku-Grozny, which crashed within the metropolis of Aktau.
Azerbaijan has declared mourning on December 26 as a result of airplane
crash.
