The Azerbaijan Airlines passenger aircraft crashed near Kazakhstan’s Aktau Airport close to the Caspian Sea on Wednesday morning, December 25, Kazakh authorities said, with up to 40 people feared de@d.

The aircraft was flying from Baku in Azerbaijan to Grozny in Russia, the Transport Ministry said in a post to its official Telegram channel. It was rerouted to Aktau in Kazakhstan due to fog in Grozny, Russian news agencies reported.

Footage of the crash showed the plane bursting into flames as it hit the ground and thick black smoke then rising.

Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations said that the plane was carrying 69 people — 64 passengers and five crew members.

The ministry said 29 people survived the crash, with many hospitalized.

Two children were among those hospitalized, the ministry said in a post to its Telegram channel.

Kazakhstan’s deputy health minister told ABC News that some of those taken to hospital are in critical condition.

Kazakh authorities have initiated an investigation into the crash, focusing on reported bird strike, mechanical failure and the decision to reroute the flight due to adverse weather conditions, Kazakh aviation authorities told ABC News.

Among the passengers were 37 Azerbaijani citizens, six from Kazakhstan, three from Kyrgyzstan, and 16 from Russia, the Transport Ministry said in a statement, citing “preliminary data.”

Azerbaijan Airlines said in a post to X that the aircraft “made an emergency landing” around 2 miles from Aktau. The aircraft was an Embraer 190 model with flight number J2-8243, it said.

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A passenger plane operated by Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) with 107 passengers on board crashed in southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on Friday afternoon, according to a PIA spokesperson. 

“The plane crashed in Karachi. We are trying to confirm the number of passengers but initially it is 99 passengers and eight crew members,” said Abdul Sattar Khokhar, the spokesman for the country’s aviation authority.

PIA said 98 people were on board the ill-fated plane.

The flight, an Airbus A320, went down near a residential area in the city. It was on its way from the city of Lahore to Karachi when the incident happened.

Images circulated on social media showed the PIA flight had smashed into a residential area, with clouds of thick black smoke billowing from the site.

Following the report of the crash, the Pakistan military said security forces had been deployed to the area and helicopters were being used to survey the damage and help rescue operations.

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