An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet flying from Kazakhstan's capital, Baku, to Russia's Grozny crashed on Wednesday in western Kazakhstan, the Kazakh transport ministry said.
Azerbaijan Airlines, that country's flag carrier, said the Embraer 190 “made an emergency landing” about two miles from Aktau, an oil and gas center on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea.
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The Kazakh transport ministry said there were 62 passengers and five crew members on the plane and the country's emergency situations ministry said preliminary information indicated there were survivors.
Crews were putting out a fire on the site, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said.
