Dozens gathered at Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku on Thursday (Dec 26) to mourn the victims of the Azerbaijan Airlines flight crash in Kazakhstan.
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00:00Dozens gathered at Haidar Aliyev International Airport in Baku on Thursday to mourn the victims
00:09of the Azerbaijan Airlines flight crash in Kazakhstan.
00:13The airport served as the departure point for the ill-fated Azal flight.
00:17Mourners observed a minute of silence as the country marked a national day of mourning.
00:26The crash occurred on Wednesday when an Embraer passenger jet carrying 62 passengers and
00:31five crew members went down near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan, claiming 38 lives.
00:38The flight, J28243, had deviated hundreds of kilometers from its scheduled route from
00:45Azerbaijan to Russia, crashing on the opposite shore of the Caspian Sea.
00:51The aircraft had originally diverted from an area of Russia recently defended by Moscow
00:55against Ukrainian drone attacks.
00:58Russia's aviation watchdog suggested the crash may have been triggered by an emergency
01:02caused by a bird strike.
01:05However, Kazakhstan's Senate chairman stated that the cause of the crash remains under
01:09investigation.