A criminal case has been opened in Russia over the crash of an AZAL-owned plane in the Kazakh port of Aktau.
As Day.Az reports, the information was disseminated by the Kremlin press service.
Let us recall that on December 25, an Embraer 190 passenger plane belonging to AZAL, flying along the Baku-Grozny route, crashed 3 kilometers from Aktau airport.
There were 67 people on board the plane (62 passengers and 5 crew members).
After the crash of a passenger plane, 27 people were admitted to the hospital. Of these, 15 people are citizens of the Azerbaijan Republic, 8 – of the Russian Federation, 3 – of the Kyrgyz Republic. The identity of one person has not yet been established.
Both crew pilots and a flight attendant were killed; two crew members survived.
On December 26, 14 victims and the bodies of four dead were delivered to Azerbaijan.
Earlier, a video of the first minutes from the scene of a plane crash near Aktau was published on the Internet from the badge of a rescuer from the Emergency Situations Department of the Mangystau region of Kazakhstan.