Source: New York Times
“Dozens of people were killed but at least 29 survived the crash of a passenger plane in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, according to the country’s authorities and local media. The jet was carrying 62 passengers and five crew members when it went down near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan. … The Azerbaijan Airlines plane had been trying to make an emergency landing in Aktau after hitting a flock of birds, Russia’s state aviation authority said in a statement cited by RIA Novosti soon after the crash. … Earlier on Wednesday, Flightradar24, a flight tracking service, said in a post on the social media platform X that the plane had been ‘exposed to GPS jamming and spoofing near Grozny.’ Radar jamming is often used to defend an area against drones. It was not immediately clear whether that had played any role in the crash.” (12/26/24)