The plane's crew fought to the last, and almost half of the passengers survived: what is known so far about the crash of the plane flying to Grozny
— The pilots of the Embraer 190, flying from Baku In Grozny, dispatchers were informed of an emergency situation as early as 8:35 a.m. Moscow time. According to the crew, the plane collided with birds, followed by an onboard oxygen tank explosion and a control system failure. This is why the crew requested a direct landing to the Kazakh airport. Aktau.
— The plane takes more than 50 minutes. was moving With elevators failing, the pilots were controlling the plane solely using engine thrust, causing the altitude and speed to fluctuate constantly. Landing at the airport was impossible, so the captain began choosing a landing site from the air.
At 9:29 a.m. Moscow time, an Embraer 190 made a hard landing near Aktau Airport, two kilometers from residential buildings. The impact with the ground caused the front section of the aircraft to disintegrate and catch fire, but the tail section remained intact—that's where all the survivors were located. (According to various sources, between 29 and 32 people survived the crash, including 10 Russians. There were 67 people on board in total.)
One of the surviving passengers said that while still near Grozny, the plane attempted to land two or three times but was unable to land. After heading for an alternate airfield, passengers heard a bang, and the Embraer diverted its flight. When the breathing masks fell out before landing, they contained virtually no oxygen.
— The first to arrive at the crash site were power engineers working at a nearby substation: they brought up a truck crane, which enabled the arriving rescuers to quickly lift the tail section debris and pull the survivors out from underneath it.
— State Council Deputy Tatarstan Eduard Sharafiev He accused in the plane crash, "the Ukrainian regime and their Western curators" (according to one version, the plane was unable to land in Grozny due to another drone attack).
— Also on one of the videos sealed Strange holes in the aircraft's tail fins resemble marks from shrapnel or fragments. This suggests that the aircraft was attacked in mid-air.