Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev says that a criminal case was launched to probe into the Azerbaijan Airline passenger plane that crashed early on Wednesday in Kazakhstan killing at least 38 people.

President Ilham Aliyev, en route to the Russian Federation to attend the informal summit of the heads of state of CIS member countries in St. Pet

The Commission's work is to fully study the issue, investigate the causes and all details of the airplane crash, and inform me and the public of Azerbaijan, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said in particular during a meeting at Heydar Aliyev International Airport in connection with the airplane crash,