An Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer E190 operating flight J28243 from Baku, Azerbaijan to Grozny, Russia, has crashed while approaching Aktau Airport in Kazakhstan during an attempted emergency landing. Local media report that 28 of the 67 people onboard have survived the accident and are being transported to hospitals.
Prior to the crash, the aircraft squawked 7700, indicating some sort of general emergency, and flight trackers showed it flying erratically over the Caspian Sea.
Several witnesses have filmed the accident and posted these videos online, which show the aircraft descending into a sea wall, erupting into flames and flipping over. The tail section was severed off from the rest of the wreckage.
Jan-Hendrik is an aviation enthusiast from Germany, loves to travel the world and fly on as many aircraft as possible. His first flight was with a Condor 757 to Spain and has been interested in aviation ever since. His fields of expertise are aircraft accidents and passenger experience (PaxEx).
