One of the passengers of the Azerbaijan plane recorded the last moments before the plane crashed on Wednesday in Kazakhstan. In the recording, among other things, passengers are shown wearing oxygen masks. Dozens of people died in this natural disaster, and others were taken to the hospital with injuries.
The Embraer 190 plane of Azerbaijan Airlines, which was flying to Chechnya, crashed on Wednesday morning near the city of Aktau on the coast of the Caspian Sea. 38 out of 67 people died. The rest are injured, some of them are in serious condition.
Reuters confirmed and published a video of the moments before the tragedy. It shows passengers wearing oxygen masks. The video also shows damage to a part of the plane's wing.
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There is speculation as to why
Officials believe that the cause of the crash was probably the loss of control of the car due to a collision with a flock of birds, which the pilots reported to the dispatcher in Aktau. – We need to read the black box, talk to eyewitnesses and air services. Now all the forces and resources are involved, and only then we will find the primary causes of the disaster, Deputy Prime Minister of the country Kanat Bozumbaev said on Wednesday.
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