As many as 38 people died in a horrific crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane near the Aktau city in Kazakhstan earlier this week. The flight, J2-8243, carrying 62 passengers and five crew members, was supposed to fly from Baku to Grozny in Russia's Chechnya.

The crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan has killed 38 of 67 people on board. Azerbaijan Airlines’ Embraer 190 was en route from Azerbaijani capital Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus on Wednesday when it was diverted for reasons that aren’t fully clear yet.

One of the surviving passengers of the airplane that crashed on Wednesday in Kazakhstan claims that as the aircraft approached landing in Grozny, he heard a loud bang. Then the airplane began to behave strangely,

After the tragic plane crash in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people, residents of Baku laid flowers at the entrance to the home of pilot Igor Kshnyakin, who did everything he could to save the passengers.

Russian authorities on Thursday closed all four of Moscow's airports, plus a fifth one in a city about 100 miles southwest of the country's capital, citing unspecified safety concerns. The five airports were "temporarily not accepting or sending flights,