This is the horrific moment a passenger plane with 72 people on board hit the ground in a fireball in a Christmas Day crash landing in Kazakhstan.
There were 67 passengers and five crew members on board the Azerbaijan airlines fight from Azerbaijan capital Baku to Russian city Grozny.
Footage of the crash showed the plane bursting into flames as it hit the ground and thick black smoke then rising.
The plane was in flames and broke into several parts on landing in Aktau, in western Kazakhstan. The country's emergency situations ministry said its personnel were putting out a fire at the site.
'At the moment, 14 survivors have been taken to the regional hospital, including five in intensive care,' the health ministry's regional department said in a statement.
The ministry later said that 28 people survived the crash, seven of which are in serious condition.
At least 10 people were confirmed as dead after the Embraer 190 crash, reported as being thrown out of the cabin. More than 40 people are feared to have died.
Azerbaijan Airlines, the country's flag carrier, said the Embraer 190 had 'made an emergency landing' around three kilometres from Aktau, an oil and gas hub on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea.
'A plane doing the Baku-Grozny route crashed near the city of Aktau. It belongs to Azerbaijan Airlines,' the Kazakh ministry said on Telegram.
The Embraer E190AR with registration number 4K-AZ65 sent out a distress signal at an altitude of 2,125 feet over the Caspian Sea.
According to survivors, a bird got into the engine of the aircraft, 'after which an oxygen tank exploded on board'.
'People on board began to lose consciousness,' said a report.
Authorities in Kazakhstan said they had begun looking into different possible versions of what had happened, including a technical problem, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.
Dramatic new footage showed the pilot pulling the plane out of a steep fall as he sought to regain control.
But the aircraft still suffered a catastrophic crash exploding in fire.
The two main sites of the wreck at Aktau airport were hundreds of yards apart.
Mangled human remains from the horror crash were strewn on rough ground at the airport.
Dazed and bloodied passengers are seen emerging from the severed rear of the plane. Some sat in shock on the ground after escaping from the aircraft. Others managed to walk clear.
Meanwhile the front of the aircraft - torn asunder by the crash - could be seen ablaze in the distance.
The plane attempted to land at Aktau in western Kazakhstan after being rerouted from Grozny and another Russian city Makhachkala due to fog.
Two of the 28 survivors are children, believed to be girls aged 11 and 16.
'They are receiving all the necessary medical care in hospitals in the region,' said the Ministry of Health. '23 ambulance teams were mobilised to the scene of the incident.'
Tengrinews reported 37 citizens of Azerbaijan, 16 of Russia, six of Kazakhstan and three of Kyrgyzstan were on board the stricken plane.
Aktau residents have been asked to donate blood for the survivors.
Kazakhstan has appointed a commission to investigate the plane crash.
Grozny - the destination - is the capital of the Chechnya republic, a Russian region controlled by Vladimir Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov which regularly sends troops to fight in the war against Ukraine.
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