AZERBAIJAN: Azeri plane crashes, 23 killed

Record ID: 218529

  • Title: AZERBAIJAN: Azeri plane crashes, 23 killed
  • Date: 24th December 2005
  • Summary: WRECKAGE OF THE PLANE
  • Embargoed: 8th January 2006 12:00
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  • Location: Azerbaijan
  • Country: Azerbaijan
  • Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes
  • Reuters ID: LVAEZ0ZFBNRDKY6XT8NSVFF0QRU3
  • Story Text: Twenty-three people were killed when an Azeri
    passenger plane crashed on Friday (December 23) soon after
    takeoff from the Caucasus state's capital Baku, officials
    said.
    A reporter of the independent Azeri television channel
    Lider told Reuters by telephone from the scene of the crash
    that he saw medical teams removing bodies from the wreckage
    of the plane near the seashore at Nardaran, on the
    outskirts of Baku.
    The Antonov An-140 aircraft, bound for the Kazakh city
    of Aktau, disappeared from radar screens soon after
    take-off from Baku.
    "The plane has crashed, 23 people on board are dead,"
    the duty officer at a local police branch, who identified
    himself as Kadykov, told Reuters by telephone. "The cause
    of the crash is unknown."
    Senior officials from police and AZAL were at the
    scene.
    Azerbaijan, situated on the Caspian Sea, is a former
    Soviet republic with a thriving oil and gas industry that
    has attracted large-scale foreign investment. It was not
    immediately known if any foreigners were among the dead.
    The An-140 is a relatively new short-range passenger
    plane designed in the 1990s. The aircraft, which has two
    propeller engines and can carry up to 52 passengers, is
    produced jointly by Ukraine and Russia.
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