BAKU. Dec 25 (Interfax) - A plane carrying Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has landed at Baku's Heydar Aliyev International Airport.
"As soon as President Ilham Aliyev, who travelled to Russia to take part in an informal summit of the CIS heads of state in St. Petersburg, was informed of the accident [an AZAL plane crash in Kazakhstan], the head of state ordered preparations to be made for immediately returning to Azerbaijan. The plane carrying Aliyev has landed at Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku," the Azerbaijani presidential press service said.