On Wednesday, December 25, an Azerbaijan Airlines plane bound for Russia crashed in Kazakhstan. On the day of the crash, the plane named Hussar took off at 7:49 a.m. local time from Heydar Aliyev Airport in Baku. Orda.kz reports that it disappeared from radar after thirty-seven minutes, before reappearing over the Caspian Sea. At 11:37 a.m., the plane crashed three kilometers from the airport in the Kazakh port city of Aktau “during an emergency landing attempt, breaking in two and catching fire,” traces the independent Kazakh media.
Sixty-seven people were on board, including five crew members: 42 Azerbaijani citizens, 16 Russians, six Kazakhs, and three Kyrgyz, according to the Kazakh Ministry of Emergency Situations. The site Azattyq, Central Asian antenna of Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty, specifies that the accident left 38 dead and 29 injured.
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Before the disaster that occurred on December 25, this Embraer 190 had already experienced incidents, reports the information site ArbatMedia, quoting the Turkish daily New Contract. Three days before the crash, the plane failed to land in Trabzon, Turkey, overshooting the runway before succeeding on the second try. However, the president of Azerbaijan Airlines, quoted by the Azerbaijani site Read, insi
