An Embraer passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday with 62 passengers and five crew on board, Kazakh authorities announced, saying that 28 people had survived.

An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet crashed in the Kazakhstani city of Aktau, killing at least 38 people, authorities have said.

Kazakhstan has ensured an objective and impartial investigation into the cause of the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane near Aktau.

Azerbaijan Airlines suspended all its flights from Baku to Russia's Chechnya until the investigation is finished, Russia’s state TASS news agency reported. An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet crashed in the Kazakhstani city of Aktau, killing at least 38 people, authorities have said.

Azerbaijan Airlines said that the crash of its plane in Kazakhstan on 25 December was caused by physical and technical external influence. Source: European Pravda with reference to the airline's statement on X (Twitter) Details: In the released statement,

A plane carrying seven people injured in the Azerbaijan Airlines' Embraer 190 crash arrived at Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku on Thursday evening.

The Malaysian Airlines flight was travelling at cruising altitude over eastern Ukraine on a journey from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down in July 2014. A pro-Russian militia had misidentified the plane as a Ukrainian military transport aircraft.