At least 28 people have been rescued after an airliner crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau, officials have confirmed First responders have extricated numerous survivors from a plane crash near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on the Caspian Sea coast, according to local officials and videos from the scene. The Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer E190AR, which was en route from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Grozny, Russia, was carrying 62 passengers and five crew members when it went down on Wednesday morning.