VIDEO: Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashes in Kazakhstan with over 30 likely dead: Reports

An Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed near Aktau, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday morning, with early reports from the Kazakh Emergency Ministry indicating that at least 28 of the 67 people on board survived.

This suggests that over 30 passengers are likely dead, with authorities having recovered four bodies from the wreckage at the time of writing.

BREAKING: Passenger plane crashes near Aktau Airport in Kazakhstan pic.twitter.com/M2DtYe6nZU

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The aircraft, an Embraer 190, was en route from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny, Russia, when it made an emergency landing roughly three kilometers from Aktau.

Preliminary reports suggested the plane may have collided with a flock of birds shortly before the crash.

Meanwhile, Flightradar24 has reported that the aircraft experienced “strong GPS jamming,” which resulted in bad ADS-B data transmission.