World leaders expressed condolences to Azerbaijan in connection with the crash of an AZAL plane flying from Baku to Grozny.
As Day.Az reports with reference to AZERTAC, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahbaz Sharif, Head of the Republic of Dagestan of the Russian Federation expressed their condolences to the families and friends of the victims and wishes for a speedy recovery to the injured. Sergei Melikov, officials of a number of other states and governments, representatives of international organizations.
Let us remind you that today an Embraer 190 passenger plane flying on the Baku-Grozny route crashed 3 km from Aktau airport. The Ministry of Transport of Kazakhstan reported that there were 37 Azerbaijani citizens on board the plane that crashed in the city of Aktau.
“According to preliminary data, there were 37 citizens of Azerbaijan, 6 citizens of Kazakhstan, 3 citizens of Kyrgyzstan, and 16 citizens of Russia on board the plane,” the ministry said in a statement.
According to AZAL, there were 62 passengers, 5 crew members, and a total of 67 people on board the Embraer 190 flight from Baku to Grozny that crashed in the city of Aktau.