A passenger on board the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday captured the moments before and after the accident on his camera. This video shows the horrifying scene inside the plane. The Embraer 190 jet plane was going from Baku in Azerbaijan to Grozny in Russia. Meanwhile, it met with an accident. 38 people died in the accident while 29 people survived.
A person travelling in the plane has recorded the video on his mobile phone. In this video, the condition of the cabin inside the plane is very bad. People are seen dragging themselves here and there inside the plane. The seats of the plane are broken and scattered. The luggage of the passengers is scattered here and there.
The Embraer 190 crashed
Azerbaijan Airlines had earlier said that its Embraer 190 aircraft had to make an emergency landing three kilometers from the city. Officials said the plane had taken off from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to the Russian city of Grozny. Initially it was reported that after a bird hit the plane, the pilot decided to turn the plane towards Aktau and had to make an emergency landing. The people on board the plane included five crew members.
There were 42 Azerbaijani citizens on the plane.
According to Azerbaijan Airlines, 42 of the passengers on board the plane were Azerbaijani citizens. Apart from this, there were 16 Russian citizens, six citizens of Kazakhstan and three citizens of Kyrgyzstan. In a mobile phone video that surfaced online, the plane can be seen falling rapidly to the ground and catching fire. Another footage showed the tail part of the plane separated from the wings and the rest of the plane lying upside down in the grass.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev was on a visit to St. Petersburg and returned to Azerbaijan upon hearing the news of the crash. Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to Aliyev by phone and expressed his condolences. Authorities from both Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan are investigating the crash.