ASTANA – Joint investigations are underway into the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) plane near Aktau, in coordination ...

Officials are trying to determine what caused the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Kazakhstan on Christmas ... trying to reach another airport in Aktau, in western Kazakhstan.

The Azerbaijan Airlines passenger aircraft crashed near Kazakhstan's Aktau Airport on Wednesday morning, killing 38 of the 67 people on board, Kazakh officials said.

Akbar Novruz Read more On the instructions of President Ilham Aliyev, all relevant state bodies have been mobilized to ...

Moscow — An Azerbaijani airliner with 67 people on board crashed Wednesday in western Kazakhstan, near the city of Aktau ... the crash, but said that the weather had forced the plane to change ...

It later reappeared on the east coast, circling near Aktau’s airport ... struck the passenger plane. Kazakh emergency specialists work at the crash site of the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger ...

The plane is believed to have come under fire from Russian air defence as it tried to land in the Russian region of Chechnya ...

Survivors from the crash told ABC News that they heard and felt explosions outside the aircraft during the flight, after which the plane appeared to lose control.

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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev directly stated that the responsibility for the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane, ...

Two U.S. military officials told NBC News that they had intelligence indicating that Russians may have misidentified the ...

(AP Photo) Footage shot by passengers before the plane crashed showed oxygen masks ... The tomb of Mahammadali Eganov, 13 who died in the Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 crash near Kazakhstan's Aktau ...