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Russia also denied emergency landing permission at all the nearby airports, forcing the pilots to divert across the Caspian sea and crash land in Kazakhstan, without functioning controls in the tail. The pilots did not survive, but half the passengers did.

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Russia also denied emergency landing permission at all the nearby airports, forcing the pilots to divert across the Caspian sea and crash land in Kazakhstan, without functioning controls in the tail. The pilots did not survive, but half the passengers did.