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Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243

The aircraft involved, seen on 18 June 2016
Accident
Date	25 December 2024
Summary	Crashed on approach during emergency landing, possibly a bird strike, under investigation
Site	Near Aqtau International Airport, Aktau, Kazakhstan
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Embraer E190AR
Aircraft name	Gusar
Operator	Azerbaijan Airlines
IATA flight No.	J28243
ICAO flight No.	AHY8243
Registration	4K-AZ65
Flight origin	Heydar Aliyev International Airport, Baku, Azerbaijan
Destination	Kadyrov Grozny International Airport, Chechnya, Russia
Occupants	67
Passengers	62
Crew	5
Fatalities	35
Survivors	32

Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Baku to Grozny operated by Azerbaijan Airlines which crashed near Aqtau International Airport, Kazakhstan, on 25 December 2024 with 67 people on board, according to local sources. Russian news agencies said that the plane had been flying from Baku to Grozny in Russia’s Chechnya, but had been rerouted due to fog in Grozny. The plane was an Embraer E190, and reportedly squawked 7700 on its transponder which signaled an emergency had occurred on board, while flying over the Caspian Sea. Thirty-two of the passengers survived the accident.

Aircraft

The aircraft involved, manufactured in 2013, was an Embraer E190AR registered as 4K-AZ65 with serial number 19000630. It was powered by two General Electric CF34-10E6 engines. It was operated by Azerbaijan Airlines.

Accident

The aircraft took off from Baku International Airport at 7:55 Azerbaijan Time (UTC+04:00) on a flight to Grozny Airport. According to flight tracking service Flightradar24, for unknown reasons the aircraft was "exposed to strong GPS jamming and spoofing" while flying near Grozny. The aircraft was diverted to Makhachkala’s Uytash Airport in Dagestan, Russia due to fog in Grozny. and had been cruising at about 30,000 ft when it disappeared from radar coverage at 8:25 local time (UTC+04:25).

The crew gave a distress signal by squawking 7700 on its transponder, at 9:35 local time (UTC+05:00) and reported a failure of the control system. Then at 9:49, the pilots requested an emergency landing in Aqtau International Airport, Aktau and tried to make it in direct mode. The plane then reappeared on radar at 10:07, flying over the Caspian Seatoward Aktau, significantly off its usual flight path. However, at 10:28, the airplane impacted the ground. The accident was captured on video, which showed that the landing gear was deployed when the plane impacted the ground. The plane crashed into the ground at a steep angle, with its right wing hitting the ground first. It then tumbled, exploded, and broke into two major pieces, and fire soon erupted. The tail section of the plane came to rest upside down away from the main wreckage, and was unaffected by fire damage. Preliminary information suggested that the emergency landing was due to colliding with a flock of birds.

Photos from the scene show extensive damage to the plane. Video captured of the events showed the aircraft struggling to maintain altitude and control, with radar data suggesting the aircraft had aborted an initial two attempts to land, before it banked at a low angle towards the runway on its third attempt, lost its remaining altitude and nose-dived into the ground.

At least four bodies were recovered from the crash site. Both pilots were killed. At least 29 people, including two children, were hospitalised following the accident. About 150 emergency workers were deployed to the crash site.Additional doctors were flown in from Astana to treat the injured.

Occupants by nationality

Investigation

Both Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan opened commissions to investigate the disaster, with the latter country establishing a commission. Azerbaijan sent a delegation consisting of its emergency situations minister, deputy general prosecutor, and the vice president of Azerbaijan Airlines to Aktau to conduct an on-site investigation. The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations flew equipment and medical workers to Kazakhstan to help with the response to the crash.

Azerbaijan Airlines opened a hotline for relatives of those on board. It changed its social media profiles to black as a sign of mourning.

Reactions

Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the American, British, French, Lithuanian, Israeli embassies, and the Georgian, Romanian and Turkish foreign ministries expressed their condolences to Azerbaijan over the plane crash.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev cut short his attendance at a Commonwealth of Independent States summit in Russia and returned to Baku following the crash, according to Russian media and Kazakhstan news sources. He declared a day of national mourning for 26 December. First lady and vice president Mehriban Aliyeva also expressed condolences.

References

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• Asia
• Aviation

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