Footage from inside plane emerges as Azerbaijan mourns 38 people killed in crash
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Azerbaijan is observing a national day of mourning after 38 people were killed in a plane crash - as footage from inside the aircraft emerged. People can be heard praying as oxygen masks are lowered on board the Azerbaijan Airlines' Embraer 190, in a clip filmed by a passenger before the plane went down.
The flight was en route from Azerbaijan's capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus on Wednesday when it was diverted for reasons not yet known. . It crashed around two miles from Aktau in Kazakhstan while making an attempt to land after flying east across the Caspian Sea.
Mobile phone footage circulating online appeared to show the plane making a steep descent before smashing into the ground in a fireball. COP29 delegates leave summit with a bad aftertaste. COP29 host suggests it can't ditch gas because of EU demand - and plays down the Trump effect.
Who thinks oil state Azerbaijan is 'perfectly suited' to hosting a climate summit? Azerbaijan does. Other footage showed part of its fuselage ripped away from the wings and the rest of the aircraft lying upside in the grass. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday it would be wrong to speculate before the end of the investigation into the cause of the crash.
Some commentators have claimed holes seen in the plane's tail section may indicate that it could have come under fire from Russian air defence systems fending off a Ukrainian drone attack. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player. Officials in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan have similarly avoided comment on a possible cause of the crash, saying it will be up to investigators to determine it.
