Azerbaijan Airlines Survivor Captures Footage From Inside Plane After Deadly Crash | Video – News18

Last Updated:December 25, 2024, 19:36 IST

A flyer inside the crashed flight captured footage following moments after the crash.

A passenger inside the crashed Azerbaijan Airlines flight recorded footage of the crashed jet. An Embraer passenger jet flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday with 62 passengers and five crew on board, Kazakh authorities announced, saying 32 survivors had been rescued.

At least 35 people are feared dead, however, authorities from Kazakhstan, Russia and Azerbaijan have said these figures could change.

The footage captured by the surviving flyer and shared by Russia’s RT shows a fellow passenger bleeding from the head. Another frame from the footage showed a passenger trying to exit from the plane. He also shows a perforated life jacket.

Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 had flown hundreds of miles off its scheduled route to crash on the opposite shore of the Caspian Sea, after what Russia’s aviation watchdog said was an emergency that may have been caused by a bird strike.

Video of the crash showed the plane descending rapidly before bursting into flames as it hit the seashore, and thick black smoke then rising. Bloodied and bruised passengers could be seen stumbling from a piece of the fuselage that had remained intact.

Video of the crash on social media showed the plane descending rapidly before bursting into flames as it hit the seashore, and thick black smoke then rising. Bloodied and bruised passengers could be seen stumbling from a piece of the fuselage that had remained intact.

Azerbaijan Airlines said the Embraer 190 jet was flying from Baku to Grozny, capital of the Chechnya region in southern Russia, but had been forced to make an emergency landing around 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) from Aktau in Kazakhstan.

“Preliminary: after a collision with birds, due to an emergency situation on board, its commander decided to ‘go’ to an alternate airfield – Aktau was chosen,” Russia’s aviation watchdog said on Telegram.

Location :

Astana/Tbilisi/Baku