An Azerbaijani airliner carrying 67 people crashed in southwestern Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing at least 38 who were on board, according to Kazakh authorities. In a sprawling rescue operation, 29 survivors including two children were pulled from the wreckage near the city of Aktau,

Kazakhstan's senate chairman said on Thursday that the cause of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash was still unknown. "None of these countries - neither Azerbaijan, Russia nor Kazakhstan - is interested in hiding information.

The carrier’s president said the crew’s ‘prioritisation of human life have immortalised their names in history’.