By Mariya Gordeyeva

ASTANA (Reuters) -An Embraer passenger aircraft flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed close to the town of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday with 67 passengers and 5 crew on board, Kazakh authorities introduced, saying 12 individuals had survived.

Unverified video of the crash confirmed the aircraft, which was operated by Azerbaijan Airways, bursting into flames because it hit the bottom and thick black smoke then rising.

The Central Asian nation’s emergencies ministry stated in a press release that fireplace companies had put out the blaze and that survivors had been being handled at a close-by hospital.

Azerbaijan Airways stated the Embraer 190 plane, with flight quantity J2-8243, had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Chechnya, however had been compelled to make an emergency touchdown roughly 3 km (1.8 miles) from the Kazakh metropolis of Aktau.

Russian information businesses stated the aircraft had been rerouted attributable to fog in Grozny.

Authorities in Kazakhstan stated that they had begun trying into completely different doable variations of what had occurred, together with a technical downside, Russia’s Interfax information company reported.