On the plane, an Embraer 190 that He traveled the route between Baku (Azerbaijan) and the Russian city of Grozny (capital of Chechnya) and which had to be diverted by fog, crashed at dawn when trying to make an emergency landing on the shores of the Caspian Sea with 69 people on board, including 5 crew members. Among the passengers: azerbaijanis, Russians, Kazakhs and citizens of Kyrgyzstan. And according to the spokesperson for Kazakhstan’s Emergencies Ministry, there were at least two children among the passengers.
Shrapnel impacts have been found in the fuselage
Kazakh authorities claim that the pilots sent a distress signal alleging a failure in the control system, that they even requested an emergency landing, but that the device ended up crashing into the ground. And although at first a collision with a flock of birds or the explosion of an oxygen cylinder in the cabin were considered as possible causes, that hypothesis has been deflated, giving way to that of an intentional attack. Ukraine accuses Russia of carrying out the attack.
According to the crisis office operating at the scene of the tragedy, “the crew sent a distress signal at 08:35 local time (03:35 GMT) and reported a failure in the control system.” As a spokesperson for Grozny airport, the Chechen capital, explained, “it was a regular flight. It had to fly to Grozny, but due to fog they sent it to Makhachkala and from there, apparently, to Aktau.” Later, “at 08:49 they requested an emergency landing in Aktau”, but at 09:28 the aircraft ended up crashing into the ground.
About thirty survivors
According to data from the Kazakh Ministry of Health, there are 38 deaths and about thirty survivors who in some cases – as if it were a Christmas miracle – came out on their own.
