Russia’s state aviation authority said the Azerbaijan Airlines plane had been trying to make an emergency landing. The Kazakh authorities said that at least 29 people survived.
Dozens of people were killed but at least 29 survived the crash of a passenger plane in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, according to the country’s authorities and local media.
“This is a bad situation, 38 people died,” said Deputy Prime Minister Kanat Bozumbayev of Kazakhstan, according to Orda, a local news outlet.
Kazakhstan’s Emergency Situations Ministry said that at least 29 people had survived, including two children, and been hospitalized with various injuries. The ministry posted photographs that it said were from the scene showing firefighters searching through the debris. One photograph appeared to show the tail of the plane largely intact, though it had been separated from the fuselage.
An unverified video from the scene, published by RIA Novosti, a Russian state news agency, showed injured people being pulled from the wreckage. In the video, some passengers were lying on the ground, while others were able to walk away from the plane.