The 53-page preliminary report published by Kazakhstan's transport ministry included photographs of the plane.

The Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan ... The front portion of the plane lay ablaze about 300-350 meters from the tail. Russian troops liberate two communities in Kharkov ...

Maya Mehrara is a News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K.. Her focus is reporting on international news. She has covered Ukraine, Russia, immigration issues, and the revolution in Iran.

Thirty-eight people were killed when the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane crashed on Dec. 25 near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after re-routing across the Caspian Sea from southern Russia.

Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243, which had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s republic of Chechnya, crash-landed a few kilometres short of Aktau airport in Kazakhstan on 25 ...

Thirty-eight people were killed when the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane crashed on Dec 25 near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after diverting across the Caspian Sea from southern Russia.