Passengers on the Embraer jet flying from Azerbaijan to Russia were seen wearing oxygen masks in the cabin before the plane crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday (Dec 25), killing 38 people.
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00:00Passengers on the Embraer jet flying from Azerbaijan to Russia were seen wearing oxygen
00:07masks in the cabin before the plane crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday,
00:13killing 38 people.
00:15Sixty-two passengers and five crew were aboard.
00:19Azerbaijan Airlines flight J28243 had flown hundreds of miles off its scheduled route
00:24from Baku to Grozny to crash on the opposite shore of the Caspian Sea after what Russia's
00:30aviation watchdog said was an emergency that may have been caused by a bird strike, but
00:35an aviation expert suggested that cause seemed unlikely.
00:40Officials did not immediately explain why it had crossed the sea, but the crash came
00:44after Ukrainian drone strikes this month hit the Chechnya region of southern Russia.
00:50The nearest Russian airport on the plane's flight path was closed on Wednesday morning.
00:55Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev said according to information he had received, the plane
01:00changed course due to poor weather, but he added the cause of the crash was unknown and
01:05must be fully investigated.
01:08Kazakhstan's main transport prosecutor told a briefing in the country's capital Astana
01:12that the plane's black box, which contains flight data to help determine the cause of
01:16a crash, had been found.