Moscow – An Azerbaijani airliner with dozens on board crashed in the western Kazakh city of Aktau on Wednesday. Kazakhstan’s Emergencies Ministry said at least 28 people survived and were hospitalized.

The ministry confirmed in a Telegram statement that 67 people, including five crew members, were on the plane. Russian news agency Interfax quoted the ministry as saying there may be other survivors.

The Embraer 190 plane made an emergency landing about two miles from Aktau, Azerbaijan Airlines said earlier.

The Kazakh Ministry of Emergency Situations initially announced that 25 people had survived the crash. The number was later revised to 27 and then to 28 as the search and rescue operation continued at the crash site, reducing the possible death toll.

The plane was originally scheduled to fly from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus.

A spokesman for Russia’s Federal Aviation Agency said preliminary information showed the pilot decided to divert to Aktau after a bird strike on the plane led to “an emergency situation on board.”

Russian news agencies said the plane was diverted due to fog in Grozny, Reuters reported.

Interfax reported that Kazakh authorities had begun investigating possible causes of the crash, including a technical problem, according to Reuters.

Cell phone footage shared online appeared to show the plane making a steep descent before hitting the ground in a fireball. Emergency services extinguished the fire on site, the Ministry of Civil Protection said.

Other footage showed part of the fuselage being torn away from the wings and the rest of the plane lying upside down in the grass. The footage matched the aircraft’s colors and its registration number.

Unconfirmed video of the crash showed people stumbling over an intact part of the fuselage, Reuters reported.

Flight tracking data from FlightRadar24.com showed the plane appeared to make a right turn as it approached Aktau airport, with its altitude fluctuating significantly up and down in the final minutes of the flight before hitting the ground.

FlightRadar24 separately said in an online post that the plane had experienced “severe GPS jamming” that “caused the aircraft to transmit poor ADS-B data,” referring to the information it provided Flight tracking websites allow you to track aircraft in flight. Russia has been accused in the past of jamming GPS transmissions across the region.

Embraer did not immediately respond to a request for comment early Wednesday morning. Azerbaijan Airlines said in a statement that it would keep the public informed and changed its social media banners to solid black.

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