Azerbaijan Airlines Plane Crashes Near Aktau, Survivors Reported

A passenger plane operated by Azerbaijan Airlines crashed near the Kazakhstani city of Aktau, the Kazakh Transport Ministry reported on Wednesday. The aircraft, an Embraer 190, was traveling from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia's Chechnya region, before it went down approximately three kilometers from the city. The crash occurred in Kazakhstan’s Mangistau region, near the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea.

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