Plane crash in Kazakhstan left dozens dead but 25 survived, officials say

An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane with dozens on board crashed in western Kazakhstan on Wednesday, the Kazakh Transport Ministry said. It was flying from Azerbaijan’s capital Baku to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya in Russia, when it went down near the city of Aktau, the ministry said.

The Kazakh emergency ministry said the plane had 62 passengers and five crew members on board and 25 people survived. Twenty-two were hospitalized, the 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.

Crews extinguished a fire at the site, the emergency ministry said.