At least four dead as Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashes in Kazakhstan

A passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia has crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan killing four people, according to health officials and medical workers. Flight number J2-8243, an Embraer 190 aircraft with 62 passengers and five crew members on board, was forced to make an emergency landing on Wednesday about 3km (1.8 miles) from Aktau. Thirty-two people, including two children, survived the crash and were hospitalised, according to the Prosecutor General’s Office in Azerbaijan. Previously, the Central Asian country’s Emergency Ministry said 25 people survived the crash, later revising that number to 27, 28, and then 29 as the search and rescue operation continued at the site of the crash. Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Jamjoom reports. Al Jazeera’s Yulia Shapovalova joins us live from Moscow to discuss the latest updates. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #Kazakhstan #KazakhstanPlaneCrash #Azerbaijan #AzerbaijanAirlines #FlightJ28243 #Russia #Grozny #Baku #Aktau #AviationAccidents #AzerbaijanAirlines #AzerbaijanAirlinesPlaneCrash #AlJazeeraEnglish