Astana, Dec 25 (Reporter) Dozens of people have died after a passenger plane crashed with about 70 people on board in Kazakhstan, local officials say.Authorities in Azerbaijan, where the flight originated, say there were at least 30 survivors, according to a BBC reportThe plane was enroute from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny in Russia's Chechnya region but was diverted to the Russian city of Makhachkala, about 100 miles east of Gronzny, due to fog, NBC news reported.The Azerbaijan Airlines flight, which crashed near Aktau, a city in southwestern Kazakhstan, had 62 passengers and five crew members on board, Kazakhstan’s emergencies ministry said in a post on Telegram.Flight J2-8243 caught fire as it attempted to make an emergency landing near the Kazakh city of Aktau.Footage shows the aircraft heading towards the ground at high speed with its landing gear down, before bursting into flames as it lands.The airline said the plane "made an emergency landing" about 3 km from Aktau. It took off from Baku at 9-25 a.m IST on Wednesday and crashed around 11-58 a.m. IST, data from flight-tracking website Flightradar24 showed. Reports from Russian media say the aircraft collided with a flock of birds before crashing, but this has not yet been confirmed, BBC said. Officials from the countries involved have stated different numbers for those who were on board and for those who survived. While the airline put the total number of passengers and crew members on board the Embraer 190 at 67, other reports put the total at 72. The reported number of survivors ranges from 28 to 32. Those on board were mostly Azerbaijani nationals, but there were also some passengers from Russia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Azerbaijan Airlines said flights between Baku and the Russian cities of Grozny and Makhachkala would be cancelled while an investigation into the incident was completed. Unverified video footage showed survivors crawling out of the wreckage, some with visible injuries. Both Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have launched investigations into the incident...////...