The AZAL passenger plane, an Embraer 190, was flying from Baku to Grozny with 67 people on board, 38 of whom died. The plane crashed near Aktau after several failed attempts to land in Grozny.

MOSCOW, December 27. /TASS/. The situation in the Grozny area during the passenger plane crash near the Kazakh city of Aktau was extremely complicated, as counter-measures were being taken in the ...

According to the press service of the Grozny airport, the reason for the change of the route was the thick fog. The plane was first redirected to Makhachkala, the capital city of Dagestan ...

GROZNY, December 25. /TASS/. The plane flying from Baku, which crashed in Kazakhstan, was first diverted to Makhachkala and then to Aktau due to fog in Grozny, the Chechen capital's airport press ...

ASTANA: An Azerbaijan Airlines plane flying from Baku to Grozny crashed at the Aktau airport in western Kazakhstan, the Kazakh Emergency Situations Ministry said on Wednesday (Dec 25). "A plane ...