Watch: Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane crashes in Kazakhstan, bursts into flames

A passenger plane en route from Baku to Grozny crashed near Kazakhstan’s Aktau airport on Wednesday. The incident occurred after the aircraft reportedly requested an emergency landing.
Kazakhstan's emergency ministry said that 42 people are likely dead in Azerbaijan Airlines' plane crash.
The plane had 67 people on board including 62 passengers and five crew, Kazakh transport ministry said. 14 people are said to have survived the crash.

Azerbaijan Airlines said the Embraer 190 aircraft, with flight number J2-8243, had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia's Chechnya, but had been forced to make an emergency landing approximately 3 km (1.8 miles) from the Kazakh city of Aktau.

Kazakhstan's emergency ministry confirmed the plane had been diverted to Aktau due to heavy fog in Grozny. The aircraft, belonging to Azerbaijan Airlines, had circled the airport multiple times before the crash.
Details about the exact cause of the crash were not immediately available.
The country's emergency situations ministry said its personnel were putting out a fire at the site.