Mobile phone footage circulating online appeared to show the Azerbaijani Airlines plane making a steep descent before slamming into the ground in a fireball in western Kazakhstan.

A passenger plane carrying 67 people from Azerbaijan to southern Russia crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau on Wednesday, local authorities said.

Twenty-nine survivors received hospital treatment. Among them was this lucky man who survived and captured the last moment of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane before it crashed. In the viral video, a man is seen saying his last prayers knowing well that the plane would soon crash. However, he was among a few lucky others who survived the crash