Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243

Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 was a scheduled

Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243
international passenger flight from Baku, Azerbaijan,
to Grozny, Russia, which operated by Azerbaijan
Airlines.

On 25 December 2024, the aircraft operating the route

(registered as 4K-AZ65) crashed near Aqtau
International Airport, Kazakhstan, with 62 passengers
and 5 crew on board, according to local sources.[2][3][4] 4K-AZ65, the aircraft involved in the accident,
Russian news agencies said that the plane had been in 2016, 8 years before the accident
flying from Baku to Grozny in Russia's Chechnya, but Accident
had been rerouted due to fog in Grozny. The plane
Date 25 December 2024
operated was an Embraer E190, and reportedly
Summary Crashed on approach
squawked 7700 on its transponder which signaled an during emergency landing,
emergency had occurred on board, while flying over under investigation
the Caspian Sea, possibly from a bird strike.[5][6][7] In Site Near Aqtau International
total, 38 people were killed in the crash, including both Airport, Aktau, Kazakhstan
pilots; 29 people survived.[1][8][9][10] 43°53′0.741″N
51°0′21.843″E
Aircraft
Aircraft Aircraft type Embraer E190AR
Aircraft name Gusar
The aircraft involved, which was manufactured in Operator Azerbaijan Airlines
2013, was an Embraer E190AR registered as 4K-AZ65
IATA flight No. J28243
with serial number 19000630. It last underwent
ICAO flight No. AHY8243
technical controls on 18 October 2024.[11] It was
powered by two General Electric CF34-10E6 engines, Call sign AZAL 8243

and was operated by Azerbaijan Airlines, the flag Registration 4K-AZ65

carrier of Azerbaijan.[12] Flight origin Heydar Aliyev International
Airport, Baku, Azerbaijan
Destination Kadyrov Grozny
International Airport,
Accident Chechnya, Russia
Occupants 67
The aircraft took off from Baku International Airport at
7:55 Azerbaijan Time (UTC+04:00) on a flight to Passengers 62
Grozny Airport.[3] According to flight tracking service Crew 5
Flightradar24, for unknown reasons the aircraft was Fatalities 38
"exposed to strong GPS jamming and spoofing" while Injuries 29
flying near Grozny.[13] The aircraft was diverted to Survivors 29[1]
Makhachkala's Uytash Airport in Dagestan, Russia due
to fog in Grozny,[14] and had been cruising at about 30,000 feet
(9,144 m) when it disappeared from radar coverage at 8:40 local
time (04:40 UTC) before reappearing off the coast of Kazakhstan
at around 10:07 local time (06:07 UTC).[15]

The crew gave a distress signal by squawking 7700 on its

transponder, at 9:35 local time (UTC+05:00) and reported a failure
of the control system.[8] Then at 9:49, the pilots requested an The remains of Flight 8243 after the
emergency landing in Aqtau International Airport in Aktau, accident
Kazakhstan and tried to make it in direct mode. The plane then
reappeared on radar at 10:07, flying over the Caspian Sea toward
Aktau, significantly off its usual flight path. However, at 10:28, the airplane impacted the ground. The
accident was captured on video, which showed that the landing gear was deployed when the plane
impacted the ground. The plane crashed into the ground, with its right wing hitting the ground first. It
then tumbled, exploded, and broke into two major pieces, and fire soon erupted. The tail section of the
plane came to rest upside down away from the main wreckage, and remained largely intact.[16]

Preliminary information suggested that the request for emergency landing was due to colliding with a
flock of birds.[17] Images from the scene showed significant perforating holes on the tail surfaces.[8][18]
The crew had reported a strong impact on the fuselage from what was initially assumed to have been
birds. Later Kazakhstan's emergency services reported that an oxygen cylinder on board might have
exploded.[19][20] A few minutes before the crash, a passenger sent a video of the cabin of the aircraft to
his wife, realizing that something was wrong.[21]

Conflicting reports emerged as to how many people were on board the aircraft, ranging from a minimum
of 67 including five crew to a maximum of 72.[3] The passengers and crew included 37 nationals of
Azerbaijan, 16 Russians, six Kazakhstanis and three Kyrgyzstanis.[15] Additionally, there were two
passengers of unknown citizenship.[21] Four minors were also on board.[22] At least 38 people on board
were confirmed to have been killed,[23] including both pilots.[13] At least 29 people,[24] including two
children, were hospitalised following the accident.[25] Eleven of them were described as in a critical
condition.[26]

Aftermath
Following the accident, a state of emergency was declared in Tupkaragan District, where the aircraft
crashed.[27] A total of 482 emergency response personnel, 97 pieces of special equipment, 10 canine
brigades, and two aircraft were deployed to the crash site.[28] Additional doctors were flown in from
Astana to treat the injured.[4] The Blood Center of the Mangystau Region reached out to the public,
asking that healthy individuals donate blood. Soon after, residents of Aktau arrived at the center to donate
their blood.[29] with around 300 participating.[30] Residents of Astana have also lined up at the city's
blood center to donate blood.[31] The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations flew equipment and
medical workers to Kazakhstan to help with the response to the crash.[13] The ministry later said that it
would airlift Russian nationals injured in the incident to Moscow.[32] A crisis centre was established at the
Russian consulate in Oral, while diplomatic staff were also sent to the crash site.[33] Representatives from
the Azerbaijani consulate in Aktau were also deployed to the crash site.[34] A special medical team and
related equipment were also dispatched from Azerbaijan.[35]
Azerbaijan Airlines suspended its Baku-Grozny-Baku and Baku-Makhachkala-Baku flights for the
duration of the investigation.[36] It also opened a hotline for relatives of those on board[4] and changed its
social media profiles to black as a sign of mourning.[13]

Reactions
Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov,[14] Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev,[37] Armenian Prime
Minister Nikol Pashinyan,[38] Bulgarian President Rumen Radev,[39] Serbian President Aleksandar
Vučić,[40] Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif,[41] Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov,[42] Russian
President Vladimir Putin,[43] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,[44] the American, British,[45]
French,[46] Lithuanian[47] and Israeli[48] embassies, and the Georgian,[49] Romanian[50] and Turkish
foreign ministries[51] expressed their condolences to Azerbaijan over the plane crash. Flowers were also
laid at the Azerbaijani embassy in Astana in mourning for the victims.[52]

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev was on an aircraft heading to the Commonwealth of Independent
States summit in Saint Petersburg, Russia when news of the crash broke out,[53] leading him to return to
Baku,[54][55] where he held an emergency meeting on the crash shortly after landing at Baku airport.[56]
He declared a day of national mourning for 26 December.[14] First lady and vice president Mehriban
Aliyeva also expressed condolences.[4]

Investigation
Both Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan opened commissions to investigate the disaster.[57][3] The Kazakh
commission was headed by deputy prime minister Kanat Bozumbayev, while Kazakh emergencies
minister Chingis Arinov also visited Aktau.[58] The Azerbaijani commission was headed by Prime
Minister Ali Asadov.[59] Azerbaijan sent a delegation consisting of its emergency situations minister,
deputy general prosecutor, and the vice president of Azerbaijan Airlines to Aktau to conduct an on-site
investigation.[13] Sources close to the investigation claimed that while nearing Groznyy, surviving
passengers stated that they had heard an explosion followed by what was described as shrapnel hitting
and penetrating the aircraft.[60]

Theories
On the morning of December 25, at around 07:25 local time (04:25 UTC), ongoing UAV attacks were
reported in Grozny.[61] Shortly afterward, at 9:35 local time (06:35 UTC), the crew of a passenger plane
issued a distress signal by squawking 7700 on its transponder.[8] According to Flightradar24, the aircraft
encountered GPS jamming, with invalid ADS-B position data starting at 04:25 UTC due to significant
interference.[62] Analysts speculate this could have been intentional GPS jamming by local authorities to
disrupt drone navigation, a tactic previously used in Moscow.

Damage to the plane included shrapnel marks on the vertical stabilizer and wings, suggesting an
explosion nearby.[63] Witness accounts reported injuries, with one woman wounded in the leg and another
witness's life jacket pierced by shrapnel.[64] It is hypothesized that Chechen anti-aircraft systems,
possibly the Pantsir-S1, mistook the plane for a UAV due to a failure in the "friend-or-foe" identification
system.[65] The Pantsir-S1's proximity-based explosions align with the shrapnel patterns observed on the
aircraft.

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External links
Full list of passengers (https://t.me/bazabazon/33931)

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