Subhankul Rahimov, a passenger of the Embraer 190 plane that crashed on Wednesday morning near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan, tried to land two or three times, but failed. His subordinate assumed that “we would all die” if it were not for the maneuver of the pilot. Zaur Mamedov was also on this plane. He was returning from his father's funeral. When the crash happened, he recorded a message to his friend: “Don't worry. Our plane has crashed. I'm alive, somewhere in Kazakhstan.”
Russian and Kazakh media reported the lives of passengers who were killed in the crash of the Embraer 190, which crashed on Wednesday morning near the city of Aktau on the banks of the Caspian River in Kazakhstan, as well as witnesses who helped evacuate people after the crash. published.
– The plane tried to land two or three times, but failed. Subhankul Rahimov told reporters of the Russian state television RT (formerly Russia Today) that it was somewhere in the Grozny region. His report is quoted by other media, including the Kazakh portal Zakon and the Russian section of the BBC.
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Plane crash site near the city of Aktau PAP/EPA/KAZAKHSTAN MINISTRY OF EMERGENCY
Rahimov claimed that he and other passengers heard an explosion, but it is not clear what and where it exploded. He later noticed that the plane was returning to Aktau. – Thanks to the pilot, he saved us with his maneuver. If it wasn't for him, we would all be dead, the man said, without specifying whether the maneuver would return to the Kazakh city.
The man said that everyone who was sitting next to him survived. According to him, people were moaning in pain and asking for help. The man – as written by the Kazakh portal Zakon – “miraculously was not injured, but is currently suffering from severe headaches.”
Rakhimov, 48, who lives in Yekaterinburg, was on a commercial flight to Grozny and was transferred in Baku, the order said.
Plane crash in Kazakhstan. Some of the passengers survived. Artur Moleda/TVN Fact
A message to a friend
36-year-old Zaur Mamedov, who was also on the plane, was returning from his father's funeral in Baku. He was recording a voice message to a friend when the accident happened. – Don't worry, our plane crashed, I'm alive, I'm somewhere in Kazakhstan.
Mamedov also heard the sound of the explosion and also did not know what happened. This man told the Russian TV channel Shot that one of the passengers was not allowed to board before the flight.
The man was injured in the leg and was taken to the hospital. He survived because he, like Rakhimov, was behind the plane.
Plane crash near the city of Aktau on the Kazakh coast of the Caspian SeaEPA/PAP
Kristina from Vladivostok was also injured. It also took place in the back of the plane. In an interview with the Russian television channel Mash, the Russian woman said that she felt a shock when she landed.
Christina mentioned that she passed out when the plane landed. When she woke up, she saw that her leg was motionless. He managed to get it out from under the seat and lower the device.
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The crashed plane in KazakhstanPAP/EPA/STR
“I still have everything in front of me”
The story of one of the witnesses of the natural disaster in Elmira was described by the independent Russian television “Nastojatschee vremya”. It is said that this woman went to work by bus that day. The driver stopped the bus near the accident site and the people on it rushed to help. – We ran to that side. We were pulling passengers out of the back of the plane, the other part caught fire, Elmira told reporters.
-Among those we brought out, there was a girl who said: “Save my mother, my mother is left there” – the interlocutor told the television. – Those we brought out were covered in blood, crying and shouting “help”. I also ran and cried. Everything is in front of my eyes, admitted Elmira.
The route of the plane that crashed in Kazakhstan FlightRadar24/Reuters
The crash of the Azerbaijani plane
The plane of Azerbaijan Airlines, which was flying from the capital of Azerbaijan, the city of Baku, to Grozny, Russia, crashed at 11:30 Astana time (7:30 in Poland) near the city of Aktau in the west of Kazakhstan, located on the Caspian Sea. According to the reports of the portals of Russia and Kazakhstan, there was a thick fog over Grozny, so the plane had to be sent to the alternative airport of the capital of Russia's Dagestan – Makhachkala.
There were 67 people on the plane. 38 people died. It was previously reported that in the meantime, there was a collision with a flock of birds, as a result of which the control system was lost.
Zakon, BBC, Nastojaszczeje Vremia, PAP, tvn24.pl
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