Due to fog in Grozny, the Embraer 190 of the Azerbaijani AZAL airline, which was operating a Baku-Grozny flight, was redirected to Makhachkala, then to Aktau, near the city, but the plane crashed. RIA Novosti was informed by the press service of the airport of the Chechen capital.
According to the Kazakh Ministry of Health, 25 people are taken to hospital. There were 67 passengers and 5 crew members on board the crashed plane.
52 firefighters and 11 units of equipment are working at the scene of the disaster. The Kazakh Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that, according to preliminary data, the cause of the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane was a collision with birds.
