In the beginning, there was once a bizarre banging noise out of doors the airplane. Then, whilst one flight attendant was once status within the cabin, one thing hit his arm, reducing it. The passengers, sensing one thing was once extraordinarily unsuitable, started panicking. Some started praying.One passenger recalled considering it will be the remaining prayer of his existence. Then, silence.The worried and chaotic scene on board Azerbaijan Airways Flight 8243 was once described via two flight attendants — Zulfugar Asadov and Aydan Rahimli — and a passenger, Subhonkul Rakhimov, in interviews with The New York Instances on Friday and with an Azerbaijani TV station.They have been some of the 29 survivors from the airplane that prompt on Wednesday with 67 other people on board from Baku, Azerbaijan, en path to Grozny, Russia, and that crashed in a ball of black smoke and orange flames at the shores of the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan. The pilots have been amongst those that didn’t live to tell the tale, officers stated.Officers from 3 nations — Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia — have opened investigations into the reason for the crash.A picture of Subhonkul Rakhimov recording a video whilst pronouncing prayers throughout the broken Azerbaijan Airways airplane at the flight from Baku to Grozny, Russia, on Wednesday.Credit score…by means of ReutersFrom his health center mattress in Baku, recalling the phobia of the flight, Mr. Asadov stated in a telephone interview, “Thank God I’m alive.”
