All decisions are not to get into the Grozny, do not fly to Makhachkala, follow back to Baku, and as a result, go to Aktau — ...

Leaked radio transcript details the tragic final moments of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243, which crashed near Aktau on ...

It crashed while trying to land near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan, after flying hundreds of kilometers (miles) east across the Caspian Sea. The plane came down near the coast about 3 kilometers ...

The Telegram channel Baza has published what appears to be the full transcript of communications between the Azerbaijan ...

Thirty-eight of 67 onboard flight from Baku to the Chechen city Grozny believed to have been killed. Russian authorities cite bird strike.

"The captain said that he was advised to land the plane at sea, but he decided to set a course for Aktau and land it on the ground," attendant Asadov said. "He warned that there would be a hard ...

Russia's Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a “tragic incident." ...

Rosaviatsia, Russia's aviation watchdog, said that the captain of the plane had been offered other airports at which to land, but had chosen Kazakhstan's Aktau. It said that it would provide ...

The Russian dispatcher reported an oxygen tank exploded inside the passenger cabin and the pilots tried to land at the Aktau airport twice, Kazakhstan Minister of Transport Marat Karabayev told media.

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.

The plane crossed the Caspian Sea to crash-land at the airport in Aktau, Kazakhstan. At a press briefing Thursday, Karabayev said a Kazakh control center heard from a Russian dispatcher that the ...