A flight from Baku to Grozny crashed in Kazakhstan, killing many passengers. Survivors describe the panic and strange sounds before the crash, suggesting possible external interference.
At first, there was a strange banging noise outside the plane as it approached Grozny , Russia. Then, while one flight attendant was standing in the cabin, something hit his arm, cutting it. The passengers, sensing something was terribly wrong, began panicking. Some began praying.The plane crash -landed near the airport of Aktau, Kazakhstan .
The anxious and chaotic scene on board Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 was described by two flight attendants – Zulfugar Asadov and Aydan Rahimli – and a passenger, Subhonkul Rakhimov, in interviews. They were among the 29 survivors from the plane that set off on Wednesday with 67 people on board from Baku, Azerbaijan, en route to Grozny, Russia, and that crashed in a ball of black smoke and orange flames on the shores of the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan. The pilot was among those who did not survive.From his hospital bed in Baku, recalling the terror of the flight, Asadov said in a phone interview, “Thank God I’m alive.” Credit: He and other survivors said the plane ran into trouble near Grozny. The aircraft, an Embraer 190, had made three attempts to land in the city, in Russia’s Chechnya republic, according to Asadov. And then it began acting weirdly. Data received from the plane showed that its vertical speed oscillated more than 100 times during the final 74 minutes of flight, according to Flightradar24.After he heard the peculiar sound outside the plane’s fuselage and his arm was cut – by what he does not know – Asadov said he took a towel and bandaged it tightly. Rahimli helped Asadov treat his arm, he said. She told Xezer Xeber Azerbaijani television network that she had heard two bangs outside the airplane and that fragments had penetrated the cabin. On Friday, Azerbaijan Airlines said the preliminary results of the Azerbaijani investigation showed the plane had suffered “physical and technical external interference”
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