
Kazakhstan Video: Recently, on December 25, a tragic plane accident occurred near Aktau, Kazakhstan, in which at least 38 people died. According to CNN report, a total of 67 people were traveling in the plane, out of which 62 were passengers and 5 were crew members. Meanwhile, a video related to the incident is going viral on social media, which was recorded by a passenger before the accident. The viral video has been posted by @clashreport from its X account, in which a passenger is continuously chanting Allah-Hu-Akbar. The man was recording the scene inside the plane when the plane was rapidly descending. During that time the rest of the people present in the plane are also screaming.
The crashed plane was flying from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, located on the western coast of the Caspian, to the city of Grozny in Chechnya in southern Russia. The flight that was involved in the accident was of Azerbaijan Airlines, which had covered a distance of only about 3 km from Aktau when it met with the accident.
The final moments of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane before its crash in Kazakhstan were captured by a passenger onboard.
Aftermath also included in the footage. pic.twitter.com/nCRozjdoUY
— Clash Report (@clashreport) December 25, 2024
After the incident, the Kazakh Ministry of Emergency Situations said that its personnel extinguished the fire that started when the plane crashed. The Health Ministry said that a special flight with specialist doctors is also being sent from Kazakhstan’s capital Astana for the treatment of the injured.
Putin spoke to the President of Azerbaijan
According to AP report, while assessing the situation after the accident, Azerbaijan Airlines officials said that only 32 people survived the crash of Flight Embraer 190, all others died.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev declared a day of national mourning on Thursday and canceled a planned visit to Russia for an informal summit of leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a group of former Soviet countries. Apart from this, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on phone with Azerbaijan President Aliyev and expressed his condolences regarding the accident.