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BREAKING NEWS Horrific moment Azerbaijan airlines plane crashes with 72 on board in Christmas Day fireball in Kazakhstan
Daily Mail ^ | 12/25/24 | WILL STEWART and MIRIAM KUEPPER

Posted on 12/25/2024 12:32:10 AM PST by CFW

This is the horrific moment a passenger plane hit the ground in a fireball in a Christmas Day crash landing in Kazakhstan.

There were 67 passengers and five crew members on board the Azerbaijan airlines fight from Azerbaijan capital Baku to Russian city Grozny.

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

The plane was in flames and broke into several parts on landing in Aktau, in western Kazakhstan. The country's emergency situations ministry said its personnel were putting out a fire at the site.

'At the moment, 14 survivors have been taken to the regional hospital, including five in intensive care,' the health ministry's regional department said in a statement.

Azerbaijan Airlines, the country's flag carrier, said the Embraer 190 had 'made an emergency landing' around three kilometres from Aktau, an oil and gas hub on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea.

'A plane doing the Baku-Grozny route crashed near the city of Aktau. It belongs to Azerbaijan Airlines,' the Kazakh ministry said on Telegram.

The Embraer E190AR with registration number 4K-AZ65 sent out a distress signal at an altitude of 2,125 feet over the Caspian Sea.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: christmasday; kazakhstan; planecrash; survivors
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Wow! It's amazing that there are survivors.
1 posted on 12/25/2024 12:32:10 AM PST by CFW
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To: CFW
So far, anyway. This is Aktau and not exactly known for their sparkling healthcare.
2 posted on 12/25/2024 12:40:52 AM PST by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: CFW

How tragic.

One has to wonder these days if it was an accident or terrorism and who was on the plane someone might have wanted to get rid of. Such is the condition of the world.


3 posted on 12/25/2024 12:44:38 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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That was my first thought as well. Who was on the plane?

The first reports are that it was a bird hit that caused the problem. The pilot should be commended for crash landing the plane in a manner that there were actual survivors.

I know it is probably just my recalling a few major events, but it seems there is always either a major earthquake or plane crash on Christmas Day.


4 posted on 12/25/2024 12:48:04 AM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

Dear Lord in Heaven

Prayers Up


5 posted on 12/25/2024 12:48:29 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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Yes, let’s hope it wasn’t an attack on high-up or civilian Russians to force an escalation.

Mere tragedy would be a relief.


6 posted on 12/25/2024 1:05:48 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: CFW

Not Christmas Day for them. They are mostly Muslim with some Orthodox Christians who celebrate it 2 weeks later, plus those who became atheist under Communism.


7 posted on 12/25/2024 1:18:24 AM PST by xxqqzz
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Muslim pilots?
8 posted on 12/25/2024 2:12:41 AM PST by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost Wisc, Mich, and Penn, by 230,000 votes.)
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To: CFW

It has been stated that seven out of ten plane crashes are targeted kills.


9 posted on 12/25/2024 2:39:44 AM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: metmom

Azerbaijan lies between Russia and Iran and maintenance on its civilian airliners has suffered from sanctions on parts and engines.


10 posted on 12/25/2024 3:34:23 AM PST by Rockingham
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Video
Passenger on Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 sent a video to his wife just minutes before the crash

In the video, passengers are heard praying and some oxygen masks are already down
https://rumble.com/v62qsfn-passenger-on-azerbaijan-airlines-flight-8243-sent-a-video-to-his-wife-just-.html


11 posted on 12/25/2024 4:25:48 AM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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I've flown on some pretty funky airlines in my day and visited some pretty funky places. But Azerbaijan Airways? Grozny?

Sorry...not in *this* lifetime!

12 posted on 12/25/2024 4:52:13 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Rockingham

Azerbaijan is NOT sanctioned, they probably buy and resell many times their normal use rate.


13 posted on 12/25/2024 4:57:31 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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The Neocons NEVER quit once they target (really create) an ‘enemy’.


14 posted on 12/25/2024 5:00:10 AM PST by BobL
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Cartwheeled in. That broke up the fuselage. That separated some of the passengers from the fuel laden parts of the plane and opened “emergency exits” at each break. Some survived.


15 posted on 12/25/2024 5:08:03 AM PST by null and void (Regarding the second Trump presidency, everyone who isn’t terrified is thankful!)
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In other words, blame Russian incompetence again

(as usual)


16 posted on 12/25/2024 5:13:22 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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“In other words, blame Russian incompetence again”

Actually, neither country is Russia and thus the Neocons are likely messing around in those countries, just as their doing in most other countries that border Russia. But still, taking down airliners again as they did a while ago in Ukraine - that should be off limits, even for Neocons. But, as we keep seeing, NOTHING is off limits for Neocons.


17 posted on 12/25/2024 5:17:27 AM PST by BobL
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Plane probably contained someone who merely pointed out the fact that Russia is losing the War, so Putin ordered it to be shot down ...

just like he did with the Polish plane carrying the Polish General Staff 12 years ago

You Putin apologists are very intolerant of any criticism


18 posted on 12/25/2024 5:21:32 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Sorry...not in *this* lifetime!

You could fly the rest of your life on Azerbaijan airlines...

19 posted on 12/25/2024 5:21:42 AM PST by null and void (Regarding the second Trump presidency, everyone who isn’t terrified is thankful!)
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“just like he did with the Polish plane carrying the Polish General Staff 12 years ago”

Actually that Polish plane (that the Neocons shot down) was carrying officials who were fighting to maintain Polish independence from the Neocons and Globalists. You guys won that, I concede that, and with that, the Neocons had an easy way to operate in Ukraine, and thus, ultimately, put an end to Ukraine’s existence (in about a month or two).

Sorry Trump won, World War 3 would have been GLORIOUS. Right?


20 posted on 12/25/2024 5:29:46 AM PST by BobL
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