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Official: Azerbaijani passenger plane crashes, all 23 aboard believed killed
(AP)
Updated: 2005-12-24 09:23 Official: Azerbaijani
passenger plane crashes, all 23 aboard believed killed
An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane with 23 people aboard crashed along
the Caspian Sea shore and all aboard were believed killed, a police official
said early Saturday.
The plane's wreckage was found along the shore, said the police duty officer
in the Sabunchi region north of the capital, Baku. He declined to give his name
because he was not authorized to act as a spokesman.
The plane disappeared from radar shortly after takeoff late Friday from Baku
en route to the Kazakh city of Aktau on the other side of the Caspian Sea, two
airport employees told The Associated Press. Both said there were 18 passengers
aboard and one said there were an additional five crew members.
The plane was identified as an An-140, a twin-engine turboprop.
Baku and Aktau are centers of the thriving Caspian Sea oil industry, which
has attracted substantial foreign investment.
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