ASTANA, Kazakhstan – Azerbaijan began a national day of mourning Thursday after a passenger jet from the flag carrier crashed in western Kazakhstan on
XMAS TRAGEDY. In this handout picture released by Kazakhstan’s emergency situations ministry on Thursday, emergency specialists work at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet near the western Kazakh city of Aktau. AFP Christmas Day, killing 38 of the 67 people onboard.
Aliyev’s office said the president “ordered the prompt initiation of urgent measures to investigate the causes of the disaster”. The Kazakh transport ministry said the plane was carrying 37 nationals from Azerbaijan, six from Kazakhstan, three from Kyrgyzstan and 16 from Russia. “We cannot disclose any investigation results at this time,” the office of Azerbaijan’s prosecutor general said in a statement.
“They were covered in blood. They were crying. They were calling for help,” said the woman, who gave her name as Elmira.“I’ll never forget their look, full of pain and despair,” said Elmira. “A girl pleaded: ‘Save my mother, my mother is back there’.”
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