A videotape taken by eyewitnesses recorded the last moments of the flight of the Azerbaijani plane, a Brazilian-made Embraer 190, which crashed, on Wednesday, in Kazakhstan, where officials confirmed that 32 of the 67 people on board survived the accident.

The plane appeared in the video flying unstable, trying to maintain its altitude, but it was falling at times and rising at other times.

The plane flew unstable before crashing on the runway in a large ball of flame.

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As it approached the runway, the plane unexpectedly tilted toward its right side, and descended at a very sharp landing angle, causing it to hit the runway and shatter into several parts in a large ball of flame.

Although investigations into the accident are still in their infancy, a number of aviation specialists have noted that the unstable flight of the plane may have been caused by a defect in the hydraulic control devices, which move the steering ailerons.

The sudden deviation of the plane towards its right side, before hitting the runway, may have been caused by the failure of one of the engines.

Aircraft engines usually fail due to a defect in the hydraulic pumps, or a bird collides with the turbine engine's front fan turbines, but this has not been confirmed in the Azerbaijani plane accident.

Flight Radar, a website specialized in monitoring aircraft flights around the world, had published a warning that the Azerbaijani plane had deviated from its scheduled course.

The plane was scheduled to land at Grozny Airport in the Chechen Republic, Russia, but it deviated from its scheduled course and headed east towards Aktau Airport in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The Ministry of Emergencies in Kazakhstan announced that “according to preliminary information, 28 survivors, including two children, were transferred to the hospital.”

The Ministry explained that 150 rescue personnel were sent to the crash site, in a private plane that took off from the Kazakh capital, Astana.