Plane crashes in Kazakhstan with dozens on board but there may be survivors, officials say

An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane flying from Kazakhstan’s capital, Baku, to Grozny, Russia, crashed in western Kazakhstan on Wednesday, the Kazakh Transport Ministry said.

Azerbaijan Airlines, that country’s flag carrier, said the Embraer 190 had made an “emergency landing” about two miles from Aktau, an oil and gas hub on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea.

The Kazakh transport ministry said there were 62 passengers and five crew members on the plane and the country’s emergency situations ministry said preliminary information indicated there were survivors.

Crews were putting out a fire at the site, the emergency situations ministry said.