Russia-bound airliner crashes in ex-Soviet state (VIDEO)

The plane was en route from Azerbaijan to Chechnya when it went down near the Kazakh city of Aktau

A passenger plane carrying 72 people, including 67 passengers and five crew members, has crashed near the city of Aktau on Kazakhstan's Caspian Sea coast, local officials reported on Tuesday.

The Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer E190AR was en route from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Grozny, Russia, when the incident occurred.

While the number of casualties remains unclear...