Survivors from the Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 that went down in Kazakhstan are speaking out for the first time since the tragedy. 29 passengers survived the crash.

Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 had been en route to Grozny, Russia, from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku with 67 people on board when it went down. Twenty-nine individuals survived. “I thought that was my last prayer,” Rakhimov said, recalling how he ...

The flight was en route from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to Grozny, in Russia’s south, when it diverted and attempted an emergency landing in Kazakhstan.