25 Passengers, Including Boy, 11, Survive Azerbaijan Airlines Plane Crash | Read
Twenty-five people survived the initial impact of a plane crash in Kazakhstan's Aqtau city, news agency AFP said Wednesday afternoon. Five, including a 11-year-old boy and a 16-year-old teen, suffered serious injuries. Kazakhstan's Ministry of Emergencies said 42 had been killed.
The plane - an Azerbaijan Airlines commercial service carrying 62 passengers and five crew -was flying from Baku in that country to Russia's Grozny.
Fog at the destination caused it to be re-routed to Aqtau, which is around 1800 km away. However, as the plane approached Aqtau International Airport an (as yet) unspecified crisis triggered an emergency landing request. Tragically the aircraft, an Embraer 190, never made it that far.
