Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashes in Kazakhstan

A piece of heart-wrenching news arrived from western Kazakhstan when a video surfaced on the Internet that proclaimed to be the footage of the exact moment when a passenger jet of Azerbaijan Airlines with 62 passengers and five crew members flying from Baku to Grozny crashed in Kazakhstan near the Aktau Airport. The pilots requested an emergency landing, and it is believed that this crash took 62 lives, according to the Khazaskatan's emergency ministry. 

"A plane doing the Baku-Grozny route crashed near the city of Aktau. It belongs to Azerbaijan Airlines," the ministry said, "Upon arrival, the aircraft was found on fire, and rescue teams began extinguishing the blaze. Details about people who lost their lives are still being confirmed, but reports suggest there are survivors." The tracking system showed how the plane of Azerbaijan Airlines crossed the Caspian Sea and headed towards Chechnya just after entering the Russian border and started circling the airport, asking for permission for an emergency landing but catastrophically crashed near the seashore just a few miles away from the airport. 

According to the Sputnik correspondent, the crash occurred because of a collision with a flock of birds. However, the Khazak authorities said they have begun investigating other possibilities for the Crash, including technical errors. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, who was returning home from Russia, where he had been due to attend a summit on Wednesday, Russia's RIA news agency reported. 

Later, Azerbaijan Airlines confirmed the crash by posting an Instagram post that said, "The Embraer 190 aircraft operated by Azerbaijan Airlines, flight numbered J2-8243 on the Baku-Grozny route, made an emergency landing approximately 3 kilometres near the city of Aktau. Additional information regarding the incident will be provided to the public."