18 passengers and 5 members of the crew died as a result of a jet crash near Baku (Nardaran village, outskirts Baku) on Friday at 22:27pm [local hours].

AN-140 airliner, belonging to AZAL state company, took off Heydar Aliyev international airport at 22:19pm [local hours] to carry out Baku-Aktau flight. Within several minutes the communication with the aircraft interrupted and it disappeared from the display of the radars. Within 8 minutes of the flight the operator at the airports received a signal on the crash of AN-140.
?N-140 airliner was purchased under a contract signed between AZAl state company and Kharkov state aviation enterprise on 8 July 2004.
Below is the list of died passengers:
Citizens of Azerbaijan:Isa Abbasov
Namik Abbasov
Tamasi Allahverdiyev
N.M. Jafarov
K.Nikulina
Rasim Rasulov
Omur Amanov
Aygun Bakhshiyev
Gizilgul Husseynova
Citizens of Georgia:Artsianri (full name still unknown)
Citizens of Australia:Alen Dekstermer
Citizens of UK:Hardi Ian James
Citizens of Turkey:Demir Erdal
Citizens of Kazakhstan:Isakov Dmitriy
Garanikova Tatiana
Karintayev Bulud
Suleymanova Aynur
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