Mobile phone footage circulating online appeared to show the Azerbaijani Airlines plane making a steep descent before slamming into the ground in a fireball in western Kazakhstan.

ASTANA – An Azerbaijan Airlines plane flying from Baku to Grozny with 67 people on board crashed on Dec. 25 morning in Aktau, killing 38 people, including six Kazakh nationals, and leaving 29 survivors. According to Kazakh Transport Minister Marat Karabayev, 67 people were on board, including 62 passengers and five crew members.

After showing the anxious passengers, the video cuts to a scene which looks a far cry from a normal flight. This is because it is the video recorded after the crash. The cabin appears in mangled shape and passengers appear stuck under the mass of steel. A woman can be seen trying to get her bearings as blood come out of her forehead.

Dozens of people have survived a crash involving a plane carrying 67 people in Kazakhstan, local officials say. Kazakh authorities said 38 people were killed in the crash. Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 caught fire as it attempted to make an emergency landing near the Kazakh city of Aktau.

Mobile phone footage circulating online appeared to show the aircraft making a steep descent before smashing into the ground in a fireball.

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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said at a news conference that it was too soon to speculate on the reasons behind the crash, pointing to bad weather as the reason the plane diverted from its original course. "This is a great tragedy that has become a tremendous sorrow for the Azerbaijani people," he said.

An Azerbaijani airliner with 67 people onboard crashed Wednesday near the Kazakhstani city of Aktau, killing 38 people and leaving 29 survivors, an official said.