Dozens of people have survived a crash involving a plane carrying 67 people in Kazakhstan, local officials say.
Kazakh authorities said 38 people were killed in the crash.
The plane was en route to Grozny in Russia but it was diverted due to fog, the airline told the BBC. The Kremlin said on Thursday that it would not “put forward hypotheses” about the cause of the crash until the investigation was finished.
Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 caught fire as it attempted to make an emergency landing near the Kazakh city of Aktau.
Footage shows the aircraft heading towards the ground at high speed with its landing gear down, before bursting into flames as it lands.
The airline said the plane “made an emergency landing” about 3km (1.9 miles) from Aktau.
It took off from the Azerbaijani capital Baku at 03: 55 GMT on Wednesday, and crashed around 06: 28, data from flight-tracking website Flightradar24 showed.
Unconfirmed reports from Russian media said the aircraft might have collided with a flock of
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