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| Accident | |
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| Date | 25 December 2024 |
| Operator | Azerbaijan Airlines |
 | This article documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses, and initial news reports may be unreliable. The latest updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. |
Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Baku to Grozny operated by Azerbaijan Airlines which crashed on 25 December 2024 with 110 people on board, according to local sources.[1][2][3] 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 190, and reportedly squawked 7700 on its transponder which signaled an emergency had occured on board, while flying over the Caspian Sea. [4][5]
Emergency services are currently putting out the fire at the crash site.
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edit- ^ "Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashes near Kazakhstan's Aktau airport". Sky News. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
- ^ "Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashes in Kazakhstan". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
- ^ Reuters (2024-12-25). "Passenger plane crashes in Kazakhstan, emergencies ministry says". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
{{cite news}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ Presse, AFP-Agence France. "Azerbaijan Airlines Plane Crashes In Kazakhstan". www.barrons.com. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
- ^ Kong, Dimsumdaily Hong (2024-12-25). "Azerbaijan Airlines plane carrying 67 passengers crashes near Aktau during emergency landing". Dimsum Daily. Retrieved 2024-12-25.