Baku Airport hosts vigil for Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash victims

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Dozens gathered at Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku on Thursday (Dec 26) to mourn the victims of the Azerbaijan Airlines flight crash in Kazakhstan.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Dozens gathered at Haidar Aliyev International Airport in Baku on Thursday to mourn the victims

00:09of the Azerbaijan Airlines flight crash in Kazakhstan.

00:13The airport served as the departure point for the ill-fated Azal flight.

00:17Mourners observed a minute of silence as the country marked a national day of mourning.

00:26The crash occurred on Wednesday when an Embraer passenger jet carrying 62 passengers and

00:31five crew members went down near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan, claiming 38 lives.

00:38The flight, J28243, had deviated hundreds of kilometers from its scheduled route from

00:45Azerbaijan to Russia, crashing on the opposite shore of the Caspian Sea.

00:51The aircraft had originally diverted from an area of Russia recently defended by Moscow

00:55against Ukrainian drone attacks.

00:58Russia's aviation watchdog suggested the crash may have been triggered by an emergency

01:02caused by a bird strike.

01:05However, Kazakhstan's Senate chairman stated that the cause of the crash remains under

01:09investigation.

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