🇦🇿🇰🇿 Crashed Embraer 190 issues emergency signal due to bird strike and steering failure.
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First video from the crash site of a passenger plane in Aktau, Kazakhstan
Looks like there are survivors, the republic's Ministry of Emergency Situations reports.
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There were 105 passengers and five crew members on board the plane that crashed in Aktau — all citizens of Russia and Azerbaijan.
At least six people survived the plane crash.
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A plane flying from Baku to Grozny crashed in Aktau — emergency services.
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🇰🇿🚨‼️ At least 6 people survived the crash, 105 were on board.
I pray more survive, ohh gods.
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Azerbaijan Airlines - on the cause of the plane crash: “According to preliminary information, the cause of the crash of the airliner flying from Baku to Grozny was a collision of the plane with a flock of birds. The airliner crashed near the airport of the Kazakh city of Aktau, before that it went to an alternate airfield.”
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🇰🇿🚨‼️ PLANE CRASH: Multiple people stood up and walked away after the plane crash!
Crazy footage.
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25 people taken to hospitals after plane crash in Aktau — Kazakhstan Emergencies Ministry
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Bird strike caused plane crash in Aktau — Rosaviatsia
The plane crashed at Aktau airport after a bird strike, Rosaviatsia reported in an official comment. They caused an emergency situation and loss of control.
The footage shows how a minute before the crash, the pilots try to level the plane, changing the trajectory up and down. Rosaviatsia reported that it is in contact with the carrier AZAL, the aviation authorities of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.
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Twenty-seven survivors taken to hospital after plane crash in Aktau, including three children — RIA Novosti in Kazakhstan's Emergencies Ministry
Official message from Rosaviatsia on the plane crash in Aktau:
"Today at about 09:30 Moscow time, near the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea, while approaching the Kazakh airport of Aktau, an Embraer 190 aircraft of the Azerbaijani airline AZAL collided with the ground. The carrier was flying from Baku to Grozny. Preliminary: after a collision with birds, due to an emergency situation on board the aircraft, its commander decided to "go" to an alternate airfield - Aktau was chosen."
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🇰🇿🇦🇿🇷🇺‼️🚨 Was the passenger plane shot down in Kazakhstan?
Damage similar to traces of striking elements or fragments was noticed on the fuselage of the plane that crashed in Kazakhstan!
A surviving passenger said that he heard an explosion before the crash. As it seems to him, it did not sound in the cabin.
Recall that Rosaviatsiya named the preliminary cause of the crash as a collision of the plane with birds.
🇰🇿🇷🇺🇦🇿 Footage from the Embraer cabin in the first seconds after the crash
One child from Chechnya who was on board the plane that crashed near Aktau was hospitalized - representative of the Chechen children's ombudsman Adam Khalikov
Azerbaijani media outlets are publishing a video showing holes in the fuselage of the plane that crashed in Aktau, very similar to traces of striking elements or shrapnel.
The versions with birds and an oxygen tank may not work.
Short before the crash
🇰🇿 PLANE CRASH: That’s not a bird strike! That’s a human attack!
🇰🇿 Shrapnel markings visible from inside, before it crashed.
It’s looks like an anti aircraft fire, a deliberate downing … not a bird strike!
This was no bird strike, this was an anti air missile.
This was a terrorism attack.
Seats and legs of passengers punctured.
Can’t be a birdstrike.
Look
The plane was hit with something, looks literally like air defense explosion in the back.
Black box found at Aktau plane crash site — Kazakhstan's chief transport prosecutor Timur Suleimenov
It also turned out that three of the five crew members survived, said Transport Minister Marat Karabayev.
🇰🇿🇷🇺🇦🇿 PASSANGER SAYS EXPLOSION HAPPENED!
Footage taken during the flight of the Azerbaijan Airlines flight shows that part of the plane's wing is damaged - a hole is visible there. At the same time, oxygen masks have already fallen out in the cabin.
Subhonkul Rakhimov, a survivor of the Aktau plane crash, said that the pilots tried to land the plane in Grozny three times.
He explained also: “On the third landing attempt, something exploded.
There was an explosion - I wouldn't say that it was inside the plane, it was outside.
Where I was sitting, the cover next to me flew off. I took the lifejacket, and I saw, there was a hole in the jacket - a piece of shrapnel had pierced it.
After this explosion, right between my legs - somewhere there - this piece of shrapnel flew in and pierced the jacket right through.”
The witness testimony
It tried to land multiple times and was hit in Kazakhstan.
So, what happened?
🇷🇺🇰🇿🇦🇿 THEORY ON PLANE TRAGEDY:
Witness testimony and flight data shows it happened over Kazakhstan after repeated landing attempts, hence it can’t be Russia nor Ukraine that shot it down.
Important:
1) The plane flew to Grozny in Russia but had to divert to Kazakhstan due to fog.
2) It tried to land multiple times in Kazakhstan
3) On 3rd or so attempt it was hit (or an explosion happened)
4) About at the same time a Ukranian drone strike was carried out on Russia, which was not too far away.
-> My bet is that Kazakh air defense made a mistake and hit it. But I want to empathize, that’s just a speculation based on the current evidence I complied.
Let’s wait for more data.
He says the plane was hit in Chechnya, hence it was Russian air defense.
There was a drone attack at this time, so the air defense could go wrong.
🇦🇿🇷🇺🇰🇿 Azerbaijan says it was Russian missile.
Azerbaijani government sources have exclusively confirmed to Euronews on Thursday that a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Aktau on Wednesday.
According to the sources, the missile was fired at Flight 8432 during drone air activity above Grozny, and the shrapnel hit the passengers and cabin crew as it exploded next to the aircraft mid-flight.
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