Moment plane crash lands in Kazakhstan

At least 29 people are believed to have survived after a passenger aircraft crashed and burst into flames near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan.

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The Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 jet was travelling from Baku to Grozny in the Chechnya region of Russia when, according to the airline, it was forced to make an emergency landing after a collision with a flock of birds.

Kazakhstan’s emergencies ministry said there were 62 passengers and five crew members on board.

“There are 25 preliminary survivors, of whom 22 were taken to hospital,” the ministry said before updating the number to 29.

Emergency services extinguished the fire and doctors were working at the scene, about 1.8 miles from Aktau. Russian media reported that the aircraft had been rerouted because of fog in Grozny, the capital of the Chechen Republic.

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