Man who recorded farewell video for wife as plane crashed in Kazakhstan survived the disaster

baku - Passenger Subkhon Rakhimov, who filmed the moments leading up to the crash to inform his wife, has reportedly survived the plane crash in Kazakhstan.

Passenger Subkhon Rakhimov, who filmed the moments leading up to the crash to inform his wife, has reportedly survived the plane crash in Kazakhstan. Shortly after the crash that claimed the lives of 38 out of 67 passengers on Wednesday, footage circulated showing passengers praying for help from above, panic breaking out, and oxygen masks being released. Rakhimov mentioned that the pilots had already attempted to land the aircraft multiple times at that point.

His wife confirmed that her husband survived the accident. In footage taken after the crash, the man is seen with a bloody face, walking around the crash site and filming a new video. He also expresses gratitude to the flight attendant who assisted him.

The flight, departing from the Azerbaijani capital Baku and en route to Grozny in the Russian republic of Chechnya, was redirected to Kazakhstan. Initially, the airline stated that the plane had encountered a flock of birds, but later retracted that statement. According to various sources, the passenger plane of Azerbaijan Airlines may have been shot down by Russian anti-aircraft artillery, leading to the crash in western Kazakhstan near the Caspian Sea.

The investigation into the cause of the crash is ongoing, involving the retrieval and analysis of the aircraft's black boxes.